[Spce-user] Suggestion: install extra repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

[Thilo Bangert]

On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 04:34:55 PM you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Thilo Bangert [Tue May 15, 2012 at 10:48:28AM +0200]:
> > On Monday, May 14, 2012 10:42:33 PM you wrote:
> > > During fresh installation via ngcp-installer an existing
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list file will be renamed to
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list.disabled. All the debian.org specific stuff we
> > > used to ship inside /etc/apt/sources.list is provided through
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list and all the Sipwise specific
> > > repositories are provided through
> > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sipwise.list with the new code.
> > 
> > the split into two different files is a step in the right direction!
> > but what is the reason that you need to provide the debian sources at all?
> > they should be all setup on a fresh install, no?
> 
> If all installations would use decent installers, then yes. But
> especially some provider installations tend to be somewhat
> "strange". :)
> 
> > would it not be enough to add sipwise.list to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ?
> 
> The idea was to make sure that all systems use the same repositories
> (like security.d.o + squeeze-updates) and we have better control
> over the included/enabled repositories (to avoid hard-to-debug
> problems with out-of-date packages), but your argument is valid.
> 
> > in our setup, we simply delete /etc/apt/souces.list and provide the debian
> > repositories in files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d ourselves. if i then
> > would
> > run the installer, i'd get the debian repos multiple times...
> 
> Alright, so we dropped the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
> specific code in our current trunk version again and will test and
> discuss the system behaviour through the next days + weeks.
> 
> > the reason i want to use our own debian repo configuration is that we use
> > a
> > private mirror. the current solution would work for us though, since we
> > can
> > always make sure that the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list doesnt
> > exist.
> 
> Iff we should really ship the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
> file then you could just overwrite the file with your own version
> and the ngcp upgrade scripts will just ignore the file (as it won't
> include our file marker), or as you said just delete the file once
> and we won't touch it neither. :)
> 
> So no matter whether we will ship
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list or not it should be a no-brainer
> for users of puppet, chef,... with the new
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sipwise.list configuration. Stay tuned. :)

it sure is - many thanks!
i was expecting a reason like the one you mentioned. too bad there isnt a way 
to query for the installed repositories...

kind regards

Thilo

> 
> Thanks for your feedback!
> 
> regards,
> -mika-