On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:58:27PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Hm, ok. I'll take a serious look at it sometime. Clobbering the whole > > file isn't nice, but maybe I can use a "## BEGIN APTITUDE SETTINGS" > > approach. > > (although that means they can't edit the whole file from aptitude) > > The file was ment to be machine writable (notice the lack of comment > support, etc). You should be able to dump the entire file from the > in-memory structures. It would be best if the GUI could set a fair number > of the useful configurations automatically.
It doesn't have comment support? I have "# ...." lines in my preferences file and nothing has ever complained...if these aren't supported, maybe something should look for them and complain if they exist. > > Are releases always well-ordered? I guess I could hack this for > > "unstable", "testing", and "stable", but what about "progeny" (they had > > their own Release file, did't they?) or "bobsrandomarchive"? > > Hmm. No, the NewFileVer function does not sort the linked list in any > way, this is necessary to do the download fail over stuff. However, since > the order is in the sources.list order the result is actually rather > sensible, it tells you where it will be downloaded from. I think this is > probably acceptable because it is the same output that the user will see > when running 'apt-get install ..' Ok, I see. That sounds reasonable. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | It is very dark. If you proceed you are likely to be eaten by a grue. | \-- Does your computer have Super Cow Powers? ------- http://www.debian.org --/
