Apturl feature to add (whitelisted) repositories
Apturl currently does not allow adding new repositories for security reasons. This limits its usefulness, there are certain repositories that show high quality and good QA. So we should add a whitelist feature to apturl so that we can add trusted repositories. The criteria/policy that such a repository must follow is discussed in the separate blueprint "partner-
The implementation will use the "channel" mechanism of gnome-app-
1. add "channel=value" to apturl parser and GUI
2. rename "app-install-
3. put the trusted repo sources.list and signing keys into app-install-
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Colin Watson
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Michael Vogt
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Michael Vogt
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for jaunty
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Michael Vogt
- Completed by
- Alexander Sack
Related branches
Related bugs
Sprints
Whiteboard
jun 2010 asac: technically implemented for a while now afaik.
ready for review
2009-01-20 cjwatson: approved
2009-02-11 mvo: this is availalbe in jaunty now
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.