package cupt libcupt-perl
reassign 575715 libcupt-perl
found 575715 libcupt-perl/1.5.8
retitle 575715 libcupt: rejects option names with dots in configuration files
thanks
intrig...@boum.org wrote:
[...]
> I tried each of the following stanzas, without success:
>
> acquire::http::bugs.debian.org::proxy "";
> acquire::http::<bugs.debian.org::proxy "";
> acquire::http::proxy::bugs.debian.org "";
> acquire::http::proxy::bugs.debian.org "";
>
> All these attempts trigger the following error messages:
>
> E: bad config in file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/11-proxy'
> W: skipped configuration file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/11-proxy'
>
> What is the correct way to do so?
>
Thanks for reporting this. I documented the way to disable proxy correctly,
but you encountered another silly bug - Cupt's parser rejects option names
with dots in config files. The fix is one-liner, and it's already in the
repository, you may try it. The reason is simple: lack of testing. When I
verified the workability of proxy options, I played with them using '-o'
syntax in the command line directly.
> BTW, what is the rationale of the fact that cupt ignores the whole
> config file when it does not like a single line of it? This behavior
> forces me to sort APT settings in apt.conf.d/ files by
> cupt-compliance, rather than by topic (e.g. I'll have to split my
> `11-proxy' file into `11-proxy-apt' and `11-proxy-cupt', which I find
> kind of ugly).
>
Because the nature of ISC-like configuration files doesn't allow line-by-line
parsing. For example, following configuration file is valid:
-8<-
cupt { worker {
simulate "false";
};
}
;
->8-
I admit that current Cupt parser is written without good error reporting, but
I am not going to change it in 1.5.x branch, which is targeted for upcoming
stable release. This is subject to improve in the next major version.
--
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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