apt/doc/examples, branch 2.0.1

configure-index: Add APT::Color option

2020-03-24T09:24:39Z

This caused unbound error list growth, because each time we dumped an error, the calls to _config->FindB() inside operator << would add 3 new errors of the form: W: Using unknown config option »apt::color« of type BOOL Hence we are dumping an infinite list of errors, and eventually that list will exceed available memory.

Show absolute time while waiting for lock instead of %, rework message

2020-03-06T12:14:37Z

Showing a percentage for a timeout is pretty non-standard. Rework the progress class so it can show an absolute progress (currently hardcoded to use seconds as a unit). If there is a timeout (aka if it's not the maximum long long unsigned -1llu), then show the timeout, otherwise just count up seconds, e.g. Waiting for cache lock: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 33842 (apt)... 1/120s or Waiting for cache lock: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 33842 (apt)... 1s Also improve the error message to use "Waiting for cache lock: %s" instead of "... (%s)", as having multiple sentences inside parenthesis is super weird, as is having two closing parens. We pass the information via _config, as that's reasonably easy and avoids ABI hackage. It also provides an interesting debugging tool for other kinds of progress.

apt(8): Wait for frontend and cache lock

2020-02-26T19:36:52Z

This is a rework of !6 with additional stuff for the frontend lock, so we can lock the frontend lock and then keep looping over dpkg lock.

apt(8): Disable regular expressions and fnmatch

2020-01-15T21:19:17Z

This is the first step. Next step will be to add warnings to apt-get and then remove support there as well.

Introduce apt satisfy and apt-get satisfy

2019-06-11T14:49:03Z

Allow to satisfy dependency strings supplied on the command line, optionally prefixed with "Conflicts:" to satisfy them like Conflicts. Build profiles and architecture restriction lists, as used in build dependencies, are supported as well. Compared to build-dep, build-essential is not installed automatically, and installing of recommended packages follows the global default, which defaults to yes. Closes: #275379 See merge request apt-team/apt!63

Prevent shutdown while running dpkg

2019-05-03T14:37:50Z

As long as we are running dpkg, keep an inhibitor that blocks us from shutting down. LP: #1820886

Merge branch 'pu/dpkg-path' into 'master'

2018-12-10T17:35:33Z

Set PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin when running dpkg See merge request apt-team/apt!38

Set PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin when running dpkg

2018-12-10T16:31:24Z

This avoids a lot of problems from local installations of scripting languages and other stuff in /usr/local for which maintainer scripts are not prepared. [v3: Inherit PATH during tests, check overrides work] [v2: Add testing]

Add support for /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/*.conf (netrcparts)

2018-12-04T16:48:41Z

This allows us to install matching auth files for sources.list.d files, for example; very useful. This converts aptmethod's authfd from one FileFd to a vector of pointers to FileFd, as FileFd cannot be copied, and move operators are hard.

Allow setting Referer header for http method

2018-11-25T16:22:43Z

Not needed for common interactions, but for some download-file interactions it could be useful to set a specific referer as some servers do not serve requested files otherwise.