> +Template: apt-setup/local/netrc > +Type: string > +# :sl3: > +_Description: netrc-style entry: > + Please enter here your apt host that requires authentication. Please use > + the format described by man netrc. > + . > + For instance: > + machine packages.server.org login myuser password mypass
OK, I now better understand what the patch is supposed to do. So let's try to cook something. Template: apt-setup/local/netrc Type: string # :sl3: #flag:translate!:4 _Description: Authentication information for the APT server: You chose to use a mirror FTP server that doesn't allow anonymous logins but allows authentication with local logins. . Please provide the needed credentials in the syntax described by netrc(5). In the following example, "<packages.example.org>" is the mirror server host name, "<myuser>" is the login to use on this server and "<mypass>" is the password for that login: . machine <packages.example.org> login <myuser> password <mypass> . This information will be stored in "/etc/apt/apt.conf" on the installed machine. (the "#flag" is described in po-debconf(7) and allows one to specify that the 4th string is not translatable (in that case, the example) By the way, as this contains a password, the patch should make provision for the information to not be stored in clear in the debconf database, shouldn't it? A "password" style template would be better but....in such case, the entire line won't be shown to users when they type it. How about prompting three times and then construct the netrc line? -first prompt about the mirror host name -then user information -then password
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