#476951 There should be a way to invoke apt-listbugs before downloading packages.

Package:
apt-listbugs
Source:
apt-listbugs
Submitter:
Luca Bruno
Date:
2024-02-02 12:03:16 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Blocked By:
Bug Title
173559

  4

 apt-listchanges: show changes while downloading

wishlist stable testing unstable over 2 years ago

80123

  12

 Pre-Download hook

wishlist stable testing unstable over 2 years ago

#476951#5
Date:
2008-04-20 17:51:46 UTC
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Currently aptitude first downloads packages then check for bugs.
I think it's better to ask the user whether to continue or not downloading
packages after checking critical bugs.
#476951#10
Date:
2008-04-20 15:01:57 UTC
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package aptitude
retitle 476951 There should be a way to invoke apt-listbugs before downloading packages.
reassign 476951 apt-listbugs,apt
thanks

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:51:46PM -0500, Luca Bruno <lethalman88@gmail.com> was heard to say:

  apt-listbugs is invoked because it's listed in Dpkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs.
This is the hook for commands that are invoked just before dpkg is
called to install the new packages.  aptitude doesn't even invoke this
directly; it happens behind the scenes when the apt library is told to
run dpkg.

  In order to get the effect you want, you would need a new hook that
ran before any download started, and aptitude would have to explicitly
ask to invoke it (as would all the other apt frontends).

  Daniel
#476951#19
Date:
2008-04-21 00:40:10 UTC
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It seems that this might lead to complex changes.
Do you think this is the only right thing to do?
#476951#24
Date:
2008-04-21 00:38:50 UTC
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:40:10PM -0500, Luca Bruno <lethalman88@gmail.com> was heard to say:

  If it needs to be in all frontends, it should be in apt.

  If it's in apt, the right way to do it (since we certainly don't want apt
to know about listbugs) is to add a new hook.

  Since there isn't any code that's guaranteed to run before a download
for the purpose of installing packages and never at any other time, the
frontend will have to explicitly invoke this new hook.  (note that this
is true even if there's a listbugs-specific function to invoke; the
problem is that the backend library doesn't know when the user is about
to install packages).

  IMO, this should wait until we have a "standard" download harness,
maybe based on the one I wrote for aptitude -- after lenny is out I hope to
talk about this with the other apt maintainers.  That would add a place to
configure a lot of things like this (all frontends would need to be modified
to run in the harness, but only once).

  Daniel
#476951#37
Date:
2016-06-23 06:46:51 UTC
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#476951#42
Date:
2017-02-19 17:08:06 UTC
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#476951#51
Date:
2024-02-02 06:41:20 UTC
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