Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: wishlist Thank you for nice system tools. Here is my feature requests: 1) -t and other similar commands for apt-cache as in apt-get 2) preferences file to allow # lead comments (officially) 3) creation of default preferences file
Here is my long story with example file: 1) Even though, # apt-cache -o APT::Default-Release=testing policy packagename exists, its nice to have equivalent "-t" found in "apt-get" to do # apt-cache -t testing policy packagename This makes life easy. (Yes, I know -s option for apt-get...) 2) Also, include a basic sane /etc/apt/preferences with many comment lines needs to be installed by install script if no file existed during upgrade. If testing and unstable entries are added to sources.list without /etc/apt/preferences, system end up with: Pin-priority=500 for stable,testing,unstable Pin-priority=100 for installed package I think reasonable starting /etc/apt/preferences is: -------- x8 # Make stable as default system. Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 # Make testing as 2nd priority Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 400 # Make unstable as 3rd priority Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 300 # # Read "man 5 apt_preferences" # # If one wants to track testing (with missing packages from unstable) # change Pin-priority for testing to 700 and unstable to 600. # # If one wants to keep particular package at fixed version do as # following example. (Remove leading # to activate): # Package: apt # Pin: version 0.5.* # Pin-Priority: 2000 # # If one must force to downgrade to particular distribution, set its # Pin-priority of the distribution to above 1001. # # apt(5.4) allow meaningless entry which enabled this comments. # Be careful not to have empty line which break this. -------- x8 3) Leading # may not be a correct documented feature, but current engine disregard strange starting token and happily considers as a comment, I think ;-) Of course, adding # lead comment as feature is nice to have. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D +
