Hi, On Tue, 07 Jul 2015, Enrico Zini wrote: > The debtags devscripts weren't using --local for a lot of time and I > wasn't aware of anyone else using debtags maintenance functions, so I > took in away, together with the code to merge tag sources, in order to > reduce the amount of code I need to maintain. > > If you need tag merging, it can probably be reimplemented easily on top > of the new python3 codebase. > > Can you tell me of the kali workflow related to debtags?
In Kali, we don't have tags in the Packages file (reprepro can't preserve this when mirroring, and it's painful to inject) so all debtags data is provided by the package kali-debtags[1], both a copy of the Debian data and the Kali specific tags. So the package ships a /etc/debtags/sources.list.d/kali with two entries: tags file:/usr/share/kali-debtags/kali tags file:/usr/share/kali-debtags/debian And the postinst calls "debtags update --local" so that those tags are merged in the debtags database (without accessing any other remote tag sources to avoid failures when installing without network). Cheers, [1] http://git.kali.org/gitweb/?p=packages/kali-debtags.git PS: Truth is that we never made any real use of this feature that I implemented in the early Kali days. But discovering new packages is a important part of what Kali users do so if we have a nice tag browser one day, it would be nice to be able to provide useful tag data. -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
