Package: apt Version: 0.3.4 Severity: wishlist I have a slink system installed from CD-ROM. I get any updates and all the non-free stuff from the net. However occasionally I want to get something from potato. For this reason I have a sources.local that only contains the cdrom and a local dir, sources.slink that contains those plus the local ftp mirror and a sources.potato that contains unstable. I symlink sources.list to the appropriate one depending on what I want.
However that is a kludge. It would be nicer if the sources.list could contain sections, i.e. it would something like # use packages from these sections by default default local slink-net [local] deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 2_4 main binary-i386 section 2, contrib SAM19990302/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/ deb "cdrom:Debian GNU_Linux slink (2.1) 1_4 main binary-i386 section 1 SAM19990302/" debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/ [slink] deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt unstable main deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/debian-non-US stable non-US [potato] deb ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/debian unstable main contrib non-free It would be nice if the various user interfaces were aware of that. Then you could do 1. I cannot use the modem right now, install the package from localonly. 2. Dist upgrade (this would then _not_ pick up unstable, but just the security fixes in slink) 3. Install package fubar from potato but satisfy as much dependencies as possible from the CDROM. 4. The UI could show the latest version on the CD, in slink and in potato. 5. IF we need to go the net and installing the potato version is not more costly then getting the slink version, take the potato version. etc. I think a lot of people have a mixed stable/unstable setup like me and would appreciate this. Jan
