Bug#714877: apt: Please support an apt-get update for a single repository only

2013-07-03 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Package: apt Version: 0.9.9 Severity: wishlist Hi maintainers, It would be useful to have the ability to apt-get update a single repository, without touching the state of other repositories or downloading their package lists. Updating a single sources.list.d file would also suffice, and

Bug#714877: apt: Please support an apt-get update for a single repository only

2013-07-03 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Geoffrey, On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Geoffrey Thomas gtho...@mokafive.com wrote: I tried writing a patch for this, but the most obvious approach ended up with apt thinking that one sources.list.d file was the _only_ one configured (and forgetting all other repositories). Patch is

Bug#714877: apt: Please support an apt-get update for a single repository only

2013-07-03 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, David Kalnischkies wrote: Your problem is the cleanup of unused files and the solution should be: -o APT::List-Cleanup=0 In sofar you can implement the requested feature without changing apt code: -o APT::List-Cleanup=0 -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/dev/null -o