On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 01:35:09PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Dear Adrian, > > Le 22/01/2023 à 12:33, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > $ ben download --archs alpha --preferred-compression-format xz > > --mirror-binaries http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports > > Downloading /tmp/Sources... > > Downloading /tmp/Packages_alpha... > > $ ben tracker --archs alpha -cd tracker > > Parsing /tmp/Sources... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_amd64... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_arm64... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_armel... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_armhf... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_i386... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_mips64el... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_mipsel... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_s390x... > > Parsing /tmp/Packages_ppc64el.. > > "ben tracker" indeed seems to ignore its "--archs" option... and probably > most of the options common to all ben frontends! Actually, it takes its > configuration from the so-called "global" configuration file. Did you > specify one (I see you've specified "-cd tracker", does it refer to > something you wrote yourself)?
No, I have not created any configuration file (tracker/ just contains .ben files for testing/using trackers locally). > I'm afraid the default one is the Realase > Team's one [1], which doesn't seem useful elsewhere... Usually they are pretty useful for me since usually I am just using this for sending new/changed trackers as MRs to the release team. > [1] /usr/share/doc/ben/examples/tracker/global.conf > > By writing a custom global.conf (see comments in [1]), I can make "ben > tracker" work with debian-ports and only alpha... I ended up editing the defaults in lib/benl_base.ml and recompile ben, but that's just a short-term hack. > I see two approches to solving this bug: > - make the command-line options override the configuration specified in > global.conf > - reject command-line options when they are read in global.conf > > What do you think? >... The behaviour of "ben download" of having some sane defaults[1] or configuration file that can be overridden on the command line is IMHO pretty good, and I'd expect "ben tracker" to behave the same way. > Cheers, cu Adrian [1] but [2] would be a better compression default [2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian/ben/-/merge_requests/2
