Re: updateinfo and -S option

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 12:53:39PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Rob van der Heij wrote:
> 
> > Hi. I just hacked the genbasedir to properly handle the --updateinfo= 
> > option, but find that the -S option has disappeared from apt-get ?  What 
> > apt command will show the stuff I crafted into the pkglist this way?
> 
> After digging awhile in the attic:
> Looks like the updateinfo isn't one of the most used features of apt:  
> it was never ported to 0.5.x series which first came available to rpm
> world in ..lets see... July 2002, and you seem to be the first to miss the
> functionality :)
> 
> Now I don't know why it wasn't ported originally, maybe Gustavo can 
> comment? Doesn't look like it'd be a big deal to add it back, if perhaps a 
> bit differently implementation-wise.

If I remember correctly, the reason it was pulled of was because it was ugly
code and Gustavo had other ideas about implementing that, but never got to it.

Regarding the comment about how many people used it, well, we, Conectiva, used it
for our official updates, and it got dropped even so :)