fetch action should allow dry-run without writing nala-sources.list

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Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg.

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fetch action should allow dry-run without writing nala-sources.list #3

Closed milosz closed 2 years ago

milosz commented 2 years ago

Hello,

From my point of view fetch action should implement --dry-run option to only determine and display best servers without writing nala-sources.list file.

Thanks for such useful app! Milosz

volitank commented 2 years ago

Hello, thanks for using nala. There is some discussion in on of our gitlab issues related to this.

The TL:DR is that we're probably considering changing how fetch works from a user's prespective. With the proposed changes I don't believe a --dry-run switch would be necessary. Basically it would do every thing, let you choose from a list of the fastest mirrors (potentially), print what is about to happen and then ask you if you'd like to overwrite

https://gitlab.com/volian/nala/-/issues/44

milosz commented 2 years ago

Thanks for info. Feel free to close this ticket. I will follow provided discussion.

volitank commented 2 years ago

Going to close now. I hope you found my solution adequate.