[7.10 - apturl 0.1ubuntu2] apturl is not able to parse dynamic packages such as linux-headers-$(uname -r)
Bug #163629 reported by
Christer Edwards
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| apturl (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apturl
I noticed today that the apturl (apt://) system is not dynamic enough to recognize flexible package names such as linux-headers-
I realize that the $(uname -r) is something that is parsed by the shell, but this is somewhat common to see in documentation and would be a nice, if small, additional feature to add to the apturl system.
Revision history for this message
| Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in apturl: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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Thanks for your bugreport.
Adding something more dynamic is certainly a good idea - we need to be careful however to not run into security issues. Just providing uname -r (or similar) shell commands is too risky. Maybe some well known variable like $ARCHITECUTRE, $KERNEL_RELEASE or similar.