[OT][was] sudo, why not su? - Why keep Synaptic

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Aug 11 14:27:31 UTC 2005


Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On 8/10/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> > Check the Section and/or Component checkboxes
>> 
>> Er, no.  For instance, tomcat4, which comes from Debian Unstable - and
>> I'd settle for _either_ Debian or Unstable, shows simply as
>> "contrib/web".
> 
> AH, you didn't say you were using non-Ubuntu repositories! I can't
> help you there-- I've heard it can be a big mistake to mix them in so
> I try not to. (I'm not a developer so it hasn't come up yet.)

It could have been a mistake.  Since there's no way to get tomcat (or at
least there wasn't) without going to Debian, it seems dicey in any event. 
But that's why I want some way to find what repositories things come from.
At one point, my apt pinning wasn't so good and I picked up some Debian
packages where I should have got Ubuntu.

What you've described is not a way to separate repositories, only to
separate "components".  It works within Ubuntu because they appear to have
one component per repository.

In fact, in my situation this does seem to work - because the only things in
"contrib" are tomcat related, and the only things in "non-free" are
blackdown java, but I'd still feel a lot better if I could find a way to
actually find out what repository I got a package from (especially since
the blackdown and _all_ debian repositories contain "non-free").
> 
> As I said before I suspect the exact contents of those columns
> probably depends upon exactly how you've defined the repositories in
> /etc/apt/sources.list -- I bet there's a way you can set it up a
> little differently so the non-Ubuntu repositories are evident somehow.
>
> It may require doing some unacceptable trickery with the path
> definitions. I was disappointed that "main" does not appear in those
> columns, myself.

Maybe my set up is actually better than yours - "main" _is_ a component.:-)
-- 
derek





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