apt/apt-private, branch 2.3.0

Implement update --error-on=any

2021-01-08T16:58:44Z

People have been asking for a feature to error out on transient network errors for a while, this gives them one while keeping the door open for other modes we need, such as --error-on=no-success which we need to determine when to retry the daily update job. Closes: #594813 (and a whole bunch of duplicates...)

Add support for Phased-Update-Percentage

2021-01-08T13:48:47Z

This adds support for Phased-Update-Percentage by pinning upgrades that are not to be installed down to 1. The output of policy has been changed to add the level of phasing, and documentation has been improved to document how phased updates work. The patch detects if it is running in a chroot, and if so, always includes phased updates, restoring classic apt behavior to avoid behavioral changes on buildd chroots. Various options are added to control this all: * APT::Get::{Always,Never}-Include-Phased-Updates and their legacy update-manager equivalents to always or never include phased updates * APT::Machine-ID can be set to a UUID string to have all machines in a fleet phase the same * Dir::Etc::Machine-ID is weird in that it's default is sort of like ../machine-id, but not really, as ../machine-id would look up $PWD/../machine-id and not relative to Dir::Etc; but it allows you to override the path to machine-id (as opposed to the value) * Dir::Bin::ischroot is the path to the ischroot(1) binary which is used to detect whether we are running in a chroot.

Only autoremove kernels in apt(8); respect --no-auto-remove

2021-01-08T12:22:30Z

Automatically removing kernels in apt-get could be unexpected, so limit it to apt for now. To handle --no-auto-remove correctly, rewrite the hack that makes apt ignore APT::Get::AutomaticRemove options from config files such that it unsets the option. This then means we can do FindB("APT::Get::AutomaticRemove", true) as the default for APT::Get::AutomaticRemove::Kernels and get the behavior we want: If you set --no-auto-remove, it is respected as that FindB returns false; if you don't set it, it will be true.

Automatically remove unused kernels on dist-upgrade

2021-01-04T09:54:42Z

Kernels clutter /boot and /boot is small size, so we need to take extra care to remove kernels when possible.

Support compressed output from rred similar to apt-helper cat-file

2020-11-07T21:52:20Z

Prepare rred binary for external usage

2020-11-07T20:48:21Z

Merging patches is a bit of non-trivial code we have for client-side work, but as we support also server-side merging we can export this functionality so that server software can reuse it. Note that this just cleans up and makes rred behave a bit more like all our other binaries by supporting setting configuration at runtime and supporting --help and --version. If you can make due without this, the now advertised functionality is provided already in earlier versions.

Merge branch 'master' into 'master'

2020-08-04T10:16:36Z

Support marking all newly installed packages as automatically installed See merge request apt-team/apt!110

Replace whitelist/blacklist with allowlist/denylist

2020-08-04T10:12:11Z

Support marking all newly installed packages as automatically installed

2020-06-08T10:18:33Z

Add option '--mark-auto' to 'apt install' that marks all newly installed packages as automatically installed. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier

private-search: Only use V.TranslatedDescription() if good

2020-05-18T20:22:24Z

When we could not find a translated description, we were pushing V.TranslatedDescription() to the vector, but that one might not have been good either. Add the check so we don't crash later when trying to access it. LP: #1877987