Re: request: 'include' directive for sources.list

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Matthias Berse <matthias.berse@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Subject: Re: request: 'include' directive for sources.list
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:30:47 +0200

> On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:58:42AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > For example;
> > 
> > # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial
> > # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
> > include unofficial.list
> > include private.list
> Sounds like a cool feature! 

Thanks :)

>                              It would be even better if a 
> 
> include http://www.debian.org/apt.list
> 
> would be supported. Yes I know that would be a security risc, but
> imagine one is having a local (intranet) mirror where one adds or 
> removes parts of the tree. 
> One could easly adjust apt.list, or whatever the file is
> called on the server and do an apt-get update on each machine, instead
> of fireing up an editor on each machine...
> 
> Hope you get the point?

I see, I got your point.  It might be much better if security
risk is not serious.

Now should I report this to BTS?

Best Regards,			2000.6.26

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.