Debians commandline package manager https://git.kalnischkies.de/apt/atom?h=master 2018-01-03T17:55:41Z 2018-01-03T17:55:41Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2017-08-12T14:21:13Z urn:sha1:ef9677831f62a1554a888ebc7b162517d7881116 If a method needs a file to operate like e.g. mirror needs to get a list of mirrors before it can redirect the the actual requests to them. That could easily be solved by moving the logic into libapt directly, but by allowing a method to request other methods to do something we can keep this logic contained in the method and allow e.g. also methods which perform binary patching or similar things. Previously they would need to implement their own acquire system inside the existing one which in all likelyhood will not support the same features and methods nor operate with similar security compared to what we have already running 'above' the requesting method. That said, to avoid methods producing conflicts with "proper" files we are downloading a new directory is introduced to keep the auxiliary files in. [The message magic number 351 is a tribute to the german Grundgesetz article 35 paragraph 1 which defines that all authorities of the state(s) help each other on request.] 2017-06-28T17:17:57Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2017-06-28T10:57:51Z urn:sha1:cbaf353ead58aa9eefe51542b6ad91e69b6289ce The exception was made to give (script) users a one-release grace period to adapt their setup to deal with apt enforcing signing of repositories. As we are now at the start of a new release cycle its as good a time as any to lift it now. Removes-Exception: 952ee63b0af14a534c0aca00c11d1a99be6b22b2 2015-12-19T22:04:34Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-12-15T16:20:26Z urn:sha1:3abb6a6a1e485b3bc899b64b0a1b7dc2db25a9c2 This doesn't allow all tests to run cleanly, but it at least allows to write tests which could run successfully in such environments. Git-Dch: Ignore 2015-11-25T14:20:10Z Justin B Rye justin.byam.rye@gmail.com 2015-11-22T09:14:12Z urn:sha1:839603418384565a53d9aca7b23dbd7742e3ea77 Git-Dch: Ignore 2015-11-21T17:04:29Z Justin B Rye justin.byam.rye@gmail.com 2015-11-21T16:50:06Z urn:sha1:d04e44ac8177fc5b70ae0189bb5e437c2502f910 Reference mail: https://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2015/11/msg00006.html 2015-11-19T16:13:56Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-19T15:00:33Z urn:sha1:87d6947d51717e8b0e975d913986161598a7259a Git-Dch: Ignore 2015-11-05T11:21:33Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-05T00:51:44Z urn:sha1:f01f5d911d6a9731893865bb1ec617c5038add3e This 'ignores' the component Release files you can find in Debian alongside the binary-* directories, which isn't exactly a common usecase, but it worked before, so lets support it again as this isn't worse than a valid Release file which is unsigned. Git-Dch: Ignore 2015-11-05T11:21:33Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-04T12:19:14Z urn:sha1:30c8107e9c56d7d78dcf9136f94aeed9d631dfb3 Continueing on the track of dropping privileges in all methods, lets drop it in copy, too, as the reasoning for it is very similar to file and the interaction between the too quiet interesting as copy kinda surfed as a fallback for file not being able to read the file. Both now show a better error message as well as it was previously claiming to have a hashsum mismatch, given that it couldn't read the file. Git-Dch: Ignore 2015-11-04T17:42:27Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-10-28T13:38:49Z urn:sha1:1dd20368486820efb6ef4476ad739e967174bec4 Based on a discussion with Niels Thykier who asked for Contents-all this implements apt trying for all architecture dependent files to get a file for the architecture all, which is treated internally now as an official architecture which is always around (like native). This way arch:all data can be shared instead of duplicated for each architecture requiring the user to download the same information again and again. There is one problem however: In Debian there is already a binary-all/ Packages file, but the binary-any files still include arch:all packages, so that downloading this file now would be a waste of time, bandwidth and diskspace. We therefore need a way to decide if it makes sense to download the all file for Packages in Debian or not. The obvious answer would be a special flag in the Release file indicating this, which would need to default to 'no' and every reasonable repository would override it to 'yes' in a few years time, but the flag would be there "forever". Looking closer at a Release file we see the field "Architectures", which doesn't include 'all' at the moment. With the idea outlined above that 'all' is a "proper" architecture now, we interpret this field as being authoritative in declaring which architectures are supported by this repository. If it says 'all', apt will try to get all, if not it will be skipped. This gives us another interesting feature: If I configure a source to download armel and mips, but it declares it supports only armel apt will now print a notice saying as much. Previously this was a very cryptic failure. If on the other hand the repository supports mips, too, but for some reason doesn't ship mips packages at the moment, this 'missing' file is silently ignored (= that is the same as the repository including an empty file). The Architectures field isn't mandatory through, so if it isn't there, we assume that every architecture is supported by this repository, which skips the arch:all if not listed in the release file. 2015-11-04T17:04:01Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-10-15T07:35:52Z urn:sha1:002b1bc46b18e9d309d337ddb15a6ccdfb6c9dde The manpage is also slightly updated to work better as a central hub to push people from all angles into the right directions without writting a book disguised as an error message.