Ubuntu
software-properties package

add-apt-repository should write to a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ rather than /etc/apt/source.list

Bug #503905 reported by Adam Nelson
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software-properties (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Package: python-software-properties
Release: 9.10 karmic-update

Expected: When running "sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic multiverse", I expected a new file to be inserted in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with the new repository.

What happens: Instead, /etc/apt/source.list was moved to /etc/apt/source.list.save and /etc/apt/source.list was updated.

Typically, if a debian package has configuration changes, they should be in the .d/ directory for management (i.e. if urls are changed in the base installation, etc...)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

What do you think about a option for this? Like --sources-list-file ? The default for PPAs is already a sources.list.d file.

Changed in software-properties (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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Adam Nelson (adam-varud) wrote :

I think we could just change the default behavior and not bother with a flag.

If anybody wants to do it the way it is now, it's easy enough to manually edit the source.list file directly.

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