On Tuesday, July 23, 2013 08:21:40 AM Jordon Bedwell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Scott Kitterman <ubu...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > Assuming add-apt-repository was installed by default, it's close. I think > > something like this might be reasonable (imagine some policykit or > > whatever it is called now magic here): > > > > $ sudo apt-get source hello > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state information... Done > > E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list > > Would you like 'source' URIs to be added? (y/N) > > Y > > deb-src lines have been added to your sources.list. > > ... > > Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/main Sources [1,001 kB] > > Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/restricted Sources [6,578 B] > > Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com saucy/universe Sources [6,071 kB] > > > > In other words, it's, I think, possible to make it roughly as easy as it > > is > > now to get source without having the sources.list "cluttered". For users > > of our releases, I doubt it saves much, but that would be a way to do it > > that both avoids whatever amount of bandwidth usage is involved until the > > user opts in to it, but preserves ready access to the source that I think > > is important. > Depending on how clever and one-off you want to be you could also just > give them the http url to the source as well. It shouldn't be that > hard to guess since apt already has most of the information needed to > just generate the URL from a chosen apt server in the normal deb. > This would allow for one-off downloads (for example somebody needs to > look at the way debian does some of it's compiles so they can > replicate without a package so they grab the source for nginx -- > that's a one-off IMO if they would never use any other source > package.) > > Though I personally like a default command that would be something > like add-apt-default-sources so you can also give them the ability to > run that command and disable sources too (but you can already do that > via the GUI and terminal by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and such.)
Before we run off and expend a lot more effort on this, I'd like to see something other than handwaving that this is really is a significant issue. /ubuntu/dists/raring-security/main/source [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 106 [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 32K [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 38K For end users, how much is really downloaded? /ubuntu/dists/raring-updates/main/source [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 105 [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 50K [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 62K /ubuntu/dists/raring-updates/universe/source [ ] Release 24-Jul-2013 01:16 109 [ ] Sources.bz2 24-Jul-2013 01:16 64K [ ] Sources.gz 24-Jul-2013 01:16 77K It doesn't seem like a lot. Scott K -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
