On 06/12/2015 04:05 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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> On Jun 11, 2015 6:10 PM, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com
> <mailto:jd@commandprompt.com>> wrote:
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>> On 06/11/2015 02:52 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>> those commands into a script and execute a script.
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>>> So what would actually be required to use apt-add-repository? Does it
>>> require some extra metadata to be published, or is it just about the
>>> instructions themselves? If so,what should they be for Ubuntu?
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>> Here is the verbiage on it:
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>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/add-apt-repository.1.html
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>> Looks like we could have a ppa, that ppa I assume would just have all
> the information point to the community servers (versus landscape) or we
> can also use the command line options to add the repo directly or both.
>
> Pretty sure ppa requires it to be on launchpad, no?
>
> And afaict it doesn't handle the signing keys for other repos? If so, I
> don't really see the gain with having it, since we'd still need multiple
> steps?
yeah not sure I see that one as an improvment either - unless I'm
missing something ....
Stefan