Package: apt-dater
Version: 0.8.4-4+squeeze1
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
First thanks for this very useful software. With apt-dater, upgrading
hundreds of Debian systems is really easy.
I just set up apt-dater for something like 150 hosts, and to be honest
I find the syntax for hosts.conf rather confusing and unclear.
The biggest problem is that newlines aren't allowed within a host
group. It's a pain to maintain host groups with several douzens of hosts
that way.
E.g. the following looks quite ugly:
[Domain1]
Hosts:apt-da...@host1.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host2.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host3.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host4.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host5.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host6.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host7.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host8.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host9.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host10.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host11.domain1.com:1234;apt-da...@host12.domain1.com:1234;
It would be much better if newlines were supported:
Hosts:apt-da...@host1.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host2.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host3.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host4.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host5.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host6.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host7.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host8.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host9.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host10.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host11.domain1.com:1234;
apt-da...@host12.domain1.com:1234;
Even better would be options to set username and port number globally
or by host group.
And another good feature would be something like hostname comment. Not
all hostnames or IP addresses speak for themselves.
Regards,
jonas
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