Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2009-05-30 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
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

Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2008-03-07 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2008-03-06 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:30:09AM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using netselect-apt -i /tmp/mirrors_full will download it to /tmp. I agree however that the manpage is not clear, the bug IMO could be retitled

Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2008-03-06 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there no way to avoid the temporary file completely? If not, why can't the file be created in /tmp by default? that's the current behaviour and I'd like not to break it, besides, do you run Break? Or change?

Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2008-03-06 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:09:48PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there no way to avoid the temporary file completely? If not, why can't the file be created in /tmp by default? that's the current behaviour

Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2008-03-05 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:39:39PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Package: netselect-apt Version: 0.3.ds1-10 Severity: normal Hi, netselect-apt stores mirrors_full in the current working directory. I don't think this is a good idea, /tmp is better. Using netselect-apt -i

Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2008-03-05 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Filippo Giunchedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using netselect-apt -i /tmp/mirrors_full will download it to /tmp. I agree however that the manpage is not clear, the bug IMO could be retitled to better document netselect-apt, what do you think? Is there no way

Bug#466721: netselect-apt: Current working directory polluted

2008-02-20 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Package: netselect-apt Version: 0.3.ds1-10 Severity: normal Hi, netselect-apt stores mirrors_full in the current working directory. I don't think this is a good idea, /tmp is better. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386