Am 20.03.2004 um 17:08 schrieb Peter O'Gorman:
David R. Morrison wrote:Don't forget to cope with user changes to the sources.list, esp. enabling unstable, a common thing to do, as well as additional repositories added by a user (for 3rd party packages). Those must not be removed by fink!
My idea was that fink should actually write (or modify) the sources.list
file. If you update the mirror choices, fink would write the correct
entry into sources.list. In order to allow users to include unofficial
binary depositories, there should also be a prompt during mirror selection
"would you like to use unofficial binary depositories? if so, give the
address here", and allow users to do this an arbitrary number of times.
Can anybody else think of other features this would need to have?
Hi David,
We were just looking into the idea of using http redirects for apt on #fink. Looks like apt in fink does not currently support this feature, but there are versions of apt out there which do. This would allow us to rewrite urls on the fly when changes have been made.
It also seems that this particular issue may be resolved soon.
However, fink should indeed write to the apt sources.list when mirroring changes are made, provided the user is given the opportunity to review the changes. fink should attempt, as best it can, to only change fink official mirrors when making changes. This could probably be best accomplished by using comments in the sources.list to delineate the beginning and end of "fink official sources".
Cheers,
Max
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