Hi Christoph, On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 02:53:41PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > Source: dose3 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > it would be nice if there was an --exclude counterpart to the existing > --checkonly option that excludes the named packages from being > checked. > > My use case is that in my repositories I have some packages that > require backports to be installed, and I would like to do this: > > dose-(build)debcheck debian_main_binaries my_repo_binaries/sources --exclude > 'a, b, c' > dose-(build)debcheck debian_main_binaries debian_backports_binaries > my_repo_binaries/sources --checkonly 'a, b, c' > > I'm currently working around by filtering the package lists with > grep-dctrl on the fly, but the tempfiles handling is annoying. > > (--checkonly-file packagelist.txt and --exlude-file could maybe also > make sense to have, where packagelist.txt has one package name per > line.)
Sounds sensible, I'll submit it to upstream. Just a hint since you talk about tempfile handling in scripts: both tools can also read a Packages file from stdin, which is convenient precisely in your usecase since it allows you to use a pipe instead of a tempfile. Cheers -Ralf.
