On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:52:35PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Filippo Giunchedi <fili...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Break? Or change? > > > What would break? > > > > Break. For example scripts relying on mirrors_full being in the same > > directory > > as netselect is launched. > > Hmm, good point. But it'd be better for scripts to explicitly request > that behaviour.
okay I'll change this to use mktemp instead > > > > netselect-apt that often? > > > > > > No. Still, I'd like to keep my system clean and not discover files > > > named mirrors_full in a random place on my file system. > > > > netselect-apt writes sources.list also to the current directory, so I'd > > say it > > is the same thing. > > Right again. Maybe it should be written to stdout by default? No, I think writing to a file is okay, said behaviour can be obtained by netselect-apt -o /dev/stdout. Besides, netselect-apt clearly states that it has written to sources.lists as the last thing it outputs. filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net - 0x6B79D401 God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. -- Paul Erdos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
