apt/doc/examples, branch feature/rred

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.

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.