apt/doc/examples, branch 2.1.15

Keep URIs encoded in the acquire system

2020-12-18T18:31:19Z

We do not deal a lot with URIs which need encoding, but then we do it is a pain that we store it decoded in the acquire system as it means we have to decode and reencode URIs eventually which is potentially giving us slightly different URIs. We see that in our own testing framework while setting up redirects as the config options are effectively double-encoded and decoded to pass them around successfully as otherwise %2f and / in an URI are treated the same. This commit adds the infrastructure for methods to opt into getting URIs send in encoded form (and returning them to us in encoded form, too) so that we eventually do not have to touch the URIs which is how it should be. This means though that we have to deal with methods who do not support this yet (aka: all at the moment) for which we decode and encode while communicating with them.

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

Add basic support for the Protected field

2020-06-29T15:32:17Z

This will be mapped to Important for the time being.

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

Allow 20 instead of 10 loops for pkgProblemResolver

2020-06-03T10:55:02Z

Especially if a lot packages have to be removed due to not to explicitly expressed conflicts the problem resolver can take a few turns to remove them all. Allowing it to try a little longer if needed seems beneficial as the worst which can happen is that we now take two times as long to present an error message to the user.

ubuntu: http: Add non-interactive to user agent if run by systemd

2020-04-09T08:39:34Z

Include that apt is being run from a service in the user agent, so traffic can be analysed for interactive vs non-interactive use, and prioritised accordingly. It looks like this now: User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 (2.0.1) non-interactive A previous version included the full service names, but this raised some privacy concerns. LP: #1825000

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.