Debians commandline package manager https://git.kalnischkies.de/apt/atom?h=1.2.5 2016-01-08T14:40:01Z 2016-01-08T14:40:01Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2016-01-07T19:32:09Z urn:sha1:0179cfa83cf0042235eda41db7f35c420781c63e Downloading and storing are two different operations were different compression types can be preferred. For downloading we provide the choice via Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order as there is a choice to be made between download size and speed – and limited by whats available in the repository. Storage on the other hand has all compressions currently supported by apt available and to reduce runtime of tools accessing these files the compression type should be a low-cost format in terms of decompression. apt traditionally stores its indexes uncompressed on disk, but has options to keep them compressed. Now that apt downloads additional files we also deal with files which simply can't be stored uncompressed as they are just too big (like Contents for apt-file). Traditionally they are downloaded in a low-cost format (gz) as repositories do not provide other formats, but there might be even lower-cost formats and for download we could introduce higher-cost in the repositories. Downloading an entire index potentially requires recompression to another format, so an update takes potentially longer – but big files are usually updated via pdiffs which has to de- and re-compress anyhow and does it on the fly anyhow, so there is no extra time needed and in general it seems to be benefitial to invest the time in update to save time later on file access. 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 2015-11-21T17:04:29Z 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 2015-11-04T17:42:27Z 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. 2015-11-04T17:04:02Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-10-20T16:31:10Z urn:sha1:995a4bf6d770a5cc824c38388909f23fcca558c3 apt is an interactive command and the reasons we haven't this option set for everything is mostly in keeping compatibility for a little while longer to allow scripts to be changed if need be. 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. 2015-11-04T17:04:01Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-10-13T09:37:39Z urn:sha1:f18f2338a17d3037ac0d6f81a7f1a37df6eaca01 Insecure (aka unsigned) repositories are bad, period. We want to get right of them finally and as a first step we are printing scary warnings. This is already done, this commit just changes the messages to be more consistent and prevents them from being displayed if authenticity is guaranteed some other way (as indicated with trusted=yes). The idea is to first print the pure fact like "repository isn't signed" as a warning (and later as an error), while giving an explaination in a immediately following notice (which is displayed only in quiet level 0: so in interactive use, not in scripts and alike). Closes: 796549 2015-09-15T08:16:09Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-09-14T22:33:12Z urn:sha1:6c0765c096ffb4df14169236c865bbb2b10974ae This allows running tests in parallel. Git-Dch: Ignore 2015-09-14T13:22:18Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-09-10T19:10:17Z urn:sha1:90b56f542e0ae722c843265f4e6250cc0a096f5d The tests usually run on amd64 boxes, but once in a while I run it on a (slow) armel box as well, which has its fair share of problems with some tests, but at least the low hanging fruits can be dealt with: Do not assume that amd64 is the native dpkg architecture – instead use whatever dpkg thinks is native as architecture for the test. Git-Dch: Ignore