feature request: read filters from file

[smira]

Filter line could be longer than command line limit.

Probably, support format of multiple liens and convert it into 'line1 | line2 | ...' automatically.

[rtrsparq]

multiple lines would be good, because if we can put a separate package per line it makes the diffs easy to review as the file changes.

thanks,

[flamableconcrete]

Any progress on this? This would be super useful!

[tirolerstefan]

When switching from reprepro (with mirror and filterlist file), this feature would really be important.

Filterlist in reprepro looks like this:

accountsservice install
acl install
acpi-support purge
acpid install
adduser install
[...]

[5hir0kur0]

Reading from a file is now possible since #1411 was merged.

Currently, newlines are just treated as whitespace, but what you can already do is take your newline-separated package file and add | in front of all newlines (except for the last), e.g.:

vim-common |
bash |
libc6

You can then use it as a filter with aptly mirror create -filter='@/path/to/packagelist' ....

[neolynx]

a list of package files can be converted with sed -e '$ ! s/$/ |/' to automatically add the | except on the last line.

[neolynx]

closing as this is now possible