Package: net-retriever
Version: 1.37
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

No problem, I was mostly just putting it out there in case anyone else
wanted it. It sounds like you think it might be something which could
plausibly be added to the proper package?

Good idea, doing so now (Bcc to submit@) leaving quotes in place and
attaching the patch for the BTS.

Thanks,

Ian

Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> (2014-01-22):

I think it would make sense and be very useful, yes. IIRC there's a way
to mark a string as not meant for translation, so that translators don't
work on it, and retriever/devel-udeb/url should use that (check :slN:
with N integer in other templates).

Thanks.

Mraw,
KiBi.

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the patch. It's proven very useful while seting up pipelines
on salsa that can be run when a udeb's git repo is pushed, such that a
mini.iso is produced that will make use of a repository containing that
udeb.

While getting that to work, I noticed that your patch does not deal well
with the repos that aptly produces because they do not include a
Packages.xz, which means that when the Packages.xz is found in the main
repo, it stops searching the devel repo.

That being the case, I've re-jigged things a bit, as seen here:

https://salsa.debian.org/philh/net-retriever/-/compare/master...extra-udeb-repo?w=1

(BTW I intend to tidy up the commits there tomorrow, as they include
some false starts at present, so probably best to wait until I've done
that before using anything out of that branch)

Cheers, Phil.

On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 00:03 +0200, Philip Hands wrote:
Hi Ian,

Thanks for the patch. It's proven very useful while seting up pipelines on salsa that can be run when a udeb's git repo is pushed, such that
a mini.iso is produced that will make use of a repository containing
that udeb.

While getting that to work, I noticed that your patch does not deal well with the repos that aptly produces because they do not include a
Packages.xz, which means that when the Packages.xz is found in the main repo, it stops searching the devel repo.

That being the case, I've re-jigged things a bit, as seen here:
https://salsa.debian.org/philh/net-retriever/-/compare/master...extra-udeb-repo?w=1

(BTW I intend to tidy up the commits there tomorrow, as they include
some false starts at present, so probably best to wait until I've done that before using anything out of that branch)

Glad it was useful, I'd completely forgotten I'd even written that patch!

My knowledge of this side of things is pretty stale, but FWIW I didn't
see anything untoward in your updated diff.

Cheers,
Ian.