On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 08:12:16 AM Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:02:02AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > So those are a couple of examples of what I think is definitely not what > > we > > want. I'm open to discussion about alternate ways to preserve easy access > > to the source. > > How about: > > $ sudo apt-get source hello > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list > E: Type "add-apt-repository sources" to do this automatically for you. > $ sudo add-apt-repository sources > deb-src lines have been added to your sources.list. > Now type "apt-get update", and then "apt-get source ..." will work. > $ sudo apt-get update > (...) > $ sudo apt-get source hello > (works) > > To do this, we'd need to patch apt to add the second error line, and > implement "sources" to add-apt-repository.
Assuming add-apt-repository was installed by default, it's close. I think something like this might be reasonable (imagine some policykit or whatever it is called now magic here): $ sudo apt-get source hello Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list Would you like 'source' URIs to be added? (y/N) Y deb-src lines have been added to your sources.list. ... Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/main Sources [1,001 kB] Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/restricted Sources [6,578 B] Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/universe Sources [6,071 kB] ... apt-get source lightdm-kde Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done NOTICE: 'lightdm-kde' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at: git://git.debian.org/pkg-kde/kde-extras/lightdm-kde.git Need to get 1,386 kB of source archives. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe lightdm-kde 0.3.2.1-1ubuntu2 (dsc) [1,543 B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe lightdm-kde 0.3.2.1-1ubuntu2 (tar) [1,379 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe lightdm-kde 0.3.2.1-1ubuntu2 (diff) [5,088 B] Fetched 1,386 kB in 1s (807 kB/s) apt-get source lightdm-kde Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done NOTICE: 'lightdm-kde' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at: git://git.debian.org/pkg-kde/kde-extras/lightdm-kde.git Need to get 1,386 kB of source archives. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe lightdm-kde 0.3.2.1-1ubuntu2 (dsc) [1,543 B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe lightdm-kde 0.3.2.1-1ubuntu2 (tar) [1,379 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe lightdm-kde 0.3.2.1-1ubuntu2 (diff) [5,088 B] Fetched 1,386 kB in 1s (807 kB/s) (and so on) In other words, it's, I think, possible to make it roughly as easy as it is now to get source without having the sources.list "cluttered". For users of our releases, I doubt it saves much, but that would be a way to do it that both avoids whatever amount of bandwidth usage is involved until the user opts in to it, but preserves ready access to the source that I think is important. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss