Hi, Thanks for the discussion and sorry that I'm so late joining it.
I like the idea of havng a netrc like file so that the sources.list does not have to hold username/password anymore and I agree with David that we should support the netrc file for all protcols where it makes sense (ftp, http, https), not just https. I created a lp:~mvo/apt/netrc branch that adds the netrc parser from maemons apt (git://gitorious.org/maemo-af/apt.git, David pointed me to the branch) and I plan to merge that to the debian-sid branch soon. One issue that we need to think about is that it looks like netrc does support machine, user, password. But often we want different users/passwords for different urls on the same machine. I guess it makes sense to extend the code that it first looks at machine+url and fallback to machine (currently the code in the branch will only look at the host part). Thanks, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
