On 24 May 2002, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > How is this the obvious way? Don't do that :P > > Well, if you want to tell a program to discard its output, you tell it > to write to /dev/null. If you want it to read an empty file, you do the > same.
It is not output, it is a file owned by APT. It makes backups by rename(), as is it's right, since it owns the file :P > Because I'm keeping track of the sources.list file myself. I read the > output of apt-cdrom, extract the sources.list entry from that, and > present it to the user. Later, if the user decides to keep the entry, > it gets written to sources.list. You would have a more robust program if you use the sources.list file it writes than trying to parse the output, I might change it some day.. > It would seem that apt-cdrom is very uncooperative. It's not very easy > to control how CD-ROMs get added to sources.list outside of "open a > command line, type this magic...". But maybe I'm just using the wrong > tool. Do you have any recommendations? No, you have to use apt-cdrom. If you have some suggestions on how to improve the command line interface, that could probably be done (especially if they include patches :>) Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
