reassign 695205 apt-file unblock 695205 by 695436 retitle 695205 apt-file: Should provide a wrapper to install the found package kthxbye
Hi, Daniel Hartwig wrote: > On 5 December 2012 20:59, Ole Tange <[email protected]> wrote: > > $ apt-file search libglut.so.3 > > freeglut3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so.3 > > freeglut3: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglut.so.3.9.0 > > $ sudo aptitude install freeglut3 > > Clear and concise. No confusion over what you meant with /these/ commands. > > > > > It would be nice if I did not have to go through apt-file to locate > > the package, but that I instead simply could do: > > > > $ sudo aptitude install libglut.so.3 > > Whats that? Is the argument a package name, some missing file you > like, something else? This is no longer clear. That's what I thought, too. Nevertheless I think the idea in general is not so bad. A more clear situation would provide a sub command named e.g. "fileinstall". But despite it sounds simple, I think this is quite complex to integrate in aptitude. But it could be easily implemented as a wrapper around apt-file and apt-get/aptitude. And since it needs apt-file anyway (pointless to implement that functionality a second time), but may be used with aptitude as well as apt-get, I think it's better if such a wrapper script (named e.g. apt-file-install) is included in the apt-file package. Actually http://bugs.debian.org/408379 already covers the download part as wrapper script. It should be easy to change the script to install the package instead. Reassigning to apt-file hence. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
