libapt-pkg - _config->FindFile("Dir::Etc::sourcelist") returns empty std::string

Michael Stemle themanchicken at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 12:45:05 UTC 2013


I noticed :-)
On Dec 2, 2013 6:46 AM, "Harald Sitter" <apachelogger at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Michael Stemle <themanchicken at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey all, does anybody know under what circumstances
> > `_config->FindFile("Dir::Etc::sourcelist")` would return an empty
> > std::string?
> >
> > I have this line:
> >
> > qDebug() << "sources.list: " <<
> > QString::fromStdString(_config->FindFile("Dir::Etc::sourcelist"));
> >
> > which outputs (from SourcesListTest::testConstructor):
> >
> > QDEBUG : SourcesListTest::testConstructor() sources.list:  ""
>
> _config is a libapt-pkg object I suppose? if so I suggest reading
> their source code, IIRC the library is rather under documented and
> doesn't have the most obvious behavior at times.
>
> HS
>
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