On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Livio Baldini Soares wrote: > Adam Heath writes: > > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Livio Baldini Soares wrote: > > > > > So if anybody's interested just e-mail me back at > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], or if I sent this to the wrong place, please > > > indicate me the right e-mail to contact APT development team. > > > > Send it here. I once did this as well, but never sent in a patch, altho > > Jason > > knew that I had done it. > > Ok, here it goes. > > About the NIS map you should create, I couldn't find a clean > method... Look at an example of a map like `sources.list`: > > deb file:/bla/ble bli blo > deb file:/ha/he hi ho > ^^^ > Here there's a problem cause DBM's (NIS compiled internal files) > woun't let you have two keys that are equal (deb == deb), so everyone > execept the last will be overwritten. What I did (which is a VERY BACD > solution, but the only I could think of), was to make the map like > this: > > rule1 deb file:/bla/ble bli blo > rule2 deb file:/ha/he hi ho > ^^^^
What I did, was combine all like keyed lines into one, so you could use the dbm keyed lookup. I then used a separator char, and split this in the apt client. I'll see if I can find my patch. ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s: a-- c+++ UL++++ P+ L++++ !E W+ M o+ K- W--- !O M- !V PS-- PE++ Y+ PGP++ t* 5++ X+ tv b+ D++ G e h*! !r z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ----BEGIN PGP INFO---- Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger Print | KeyID 67 01 42 93 CA 37 FB 1E 63 C9 80 1D 08 CF 84 0A | DE656B05 PGP AD46 C888 F587 F8A3 A6DA 3261 8A2C 7DC2 8BD4 A489 | 8BD4A489 GPG -----END PGP INFO-----
