apt/apt-pkg/indexfile.cc, branch 2.9.1

Initial support for snapshot servers, apt --snapshot option

2023-05-02T13:23:14Z

Provide snapshot support for offical Debian and Ubuntu archives. There are two ways to enable snapshots for sources: 1. Add Snapshot: yes to your sources file ([snapshot=yes]). This will allow you to specify a snapshot to use when updating or installing using the --snapshot,-S option. 2. Add Snapshot: ID to your sources files to request a specific snapshot for this source. Snapshots are discovered using Label and Origin fields in the Release file of the main source, hence you need to have updated the source at least once before you can use snapshots. The Release file may also declare a snapshots server to use, similar to Changelogs, it can contain a Snapshots field with the values: 1. `Snapshots: https://example.com/@SNAPSHOTID@` where `@SNAPSHOTID@` is a placeholder that is replaced with the requested snapshot id 2. `Snapshots: no` to disable snapshot support for this source. Requesting snapshots for this source will result in a failure to load the source. The implementation adds a SHADOWED option to deb source entries, and marks the main entry as SHADOWED when a snapshot has been requested, which will cause it to be updated, but not included in the generated cache. The concern here was that we need to keep generating the shadowed entries because the cleanup in `apt update` deletes any files not queued for download, so we gotta keep downloading the main source. This design is not entirely optimal, but avoids the pitfalls of having to reimplement list cleanup. Gaps: - Ubuntu Pro repositories and PPAs are not yet supported.

URI encode Filename field of Packages files (again)

2021-06-04T14:43:41Z

Keeping URIs encoded in the acquire system depends on having them encoded in the first place. While many other places got the encoding 2 out of 3 ArchiveURI implementations were missed which are in practice responsible for nearly all of the URI building, just that index filename do not contain characters to escape and the Filename fields in Packages files usually aren't. Usually. Except if you happen to have e.g. an epoch featuring package with the colon encoded in the filename. On the upside, in most repositories the epoch isn't part of the filename. Reported-By: Johannes 'josch' Schauer on IRC References: e6c55283d235aa9404395d30f2db891f36995c49

Remove ABI workaround for debDebPkgFileIndex::ArchiveInfo

2020-02-26T13:10:47Z

indexfile: Remove deprecated translation functions

2019-02-26T15:31:20Z

Remove obsolete RCS keywords

2018-05-07T11:41:31Z

Prompted-by: Jakub Wilk

Fix various typos reported by spellcheckers

2018-05-04T22:34:27Z

Reported-By: codespell & spellintian Gbp-Dch: Ignore

Introduce inrelease-path option for sources.list

2018-01-17T10:52:38Z

Allow specifying an alternative path to the InRelease file, so you can have multiple versions of a repository, for example. Enabling this option disables fallback to Release and Release.gpg, so setting it to InRelease can be used to ensure that only that will be tried. We add two test cases: One for checking that it works, and another for checking that the fallback does not happen. Closes: #886745

remove pointless APT_PURE from void functions

2017-12-14T20:55:34Z

Earlier gcc versions used to complain that you should add them althrough there isn't a lot of point to it if you think about it, but now gcc (>= 8) complains about the attribute being present. warning: ‘pure’ attribute on function returning ‘void’ [-Wattributes] Reported-By: gcc -Wattributes Gbp-Dch: Ignore

implement fallback to alternative URIs for all items

2017-12-13T22:56:29Z

For deb files we always supported falling back from one server to the other if one failed to download the deb, but that was hardwired in the handling of this specific item. Moving this alongside the retry infrastructure we can implement it for all items and allow methods to use this as well by providing additional URIs in a redirect.

Replace APT_CONST with APT_PURE everywhere

2017-08-24T14:56:52Z

As a follow up to the last commit, let's replace APT_CONST with APT_PURE everywhere to clean stuff up.