Received Sun 09 Oct 2005 7:34am +1000 from David Fedoruk: > HI: > > > I'm not sure why you think it might be a "critical" bug. It doesn't > > render the system unusable. In fact, if it did overwrite sources.list > > then I might even consider that a critical bug instead..... > > I was thinking along the lines of missing critical security update > becauase you thought you had upt to date sources when you didn't.... > > > > The behaviour you report is how it is specifically implemented. I did > > not want to accidently overwrite /etc/apt/sources.list. The purpose of > > this command, as the description indicates, is to find local Debian > > archives SUITABLE FOR sources.list, rather than TO REPLACE > > CURRENT. Thus it creates a suggested sources.list file which it writes > > into wherever you run the command. > > Then i miss interperted what was expected behaviour. I expect that my > sources list would be edited (added to) not destroyed .... even old > configuration files are valuable. > > > In fact, this command does no more than to run the netselect-apt > > command. If the resulting sources.list looks okay to you then you can > > go ahead and cut and past the entry you want into the system version > > (perhaps using wajig editsources). > > The main reason I use Debian is its packaage management system which > is light years ahead of anyoen elses, however even it is getting > weighted down by the number of commands and layers so what I never got > to with the older systems... list netselect and a few others, wajig > instantly gave me access to in a way which I could remember. So in > reading the documentation, much of it is new in that I didn't > encounter it at all withouth wajig. That is the route of my > missinterpertaion. > > > I could add the extra functionality to automatically overwrite the > > system sources.list but that does seem a little dangerous to me, since > > many people fine tune their sources.list and overwritting it would be > > a surprise. > > Me as welll, I live in fear that an old configuration file will go > into /dev/null when I had some valluable notes there! So I'm glad that > this wasn'nt the case. > > > > > Let me know if you don't agree with the rationale. > > No, I agree completely, but with my above explanations ... for some > newer users things can be less than clear when you don't have years of > experience piled on top. > > Wajig has been a godsend, It should have been done long ago. Even the > best of systems get bogged down with addititons and improvements and > sometimes somone needs to go through and merge it all together again. > You've done that magnificently. > > But how about adding a few lines to the documentation in an upcoming > version which makes this a bit clearer. It would help reduce the > posibility of misinterpertation.
Thanks for the thinking behind this David. Yes, the aim is that you should not have to know much about what wajig does under the bonnet, and hope that it just does the right thing! I guess, as I say, I could add the found site to the sources.list file but I do think that even a user of wajig probably needs to understand a little bit about the sources.list file and that they can use this to tune where they download their packages from. The central security archive is usually there by default anyhow. I've added the following to the documentation just before the section titled "FINDING PACKAGES" - does this help? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are quite a few archives available and you can test for a good connection to one with: $ wajig netselect-apt This will write a candidate sources.list in the current directory, which you can then review and add to the system sources.list, if you wish, with $ wajig edit-sources ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you again for your interest in wajig. And let me know if there are other improvements that would help someone new to Debian. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
