Debians commandline package manager https://git.kalnischkies.de/apt/atom?h=1.1.9 2015-12-19T11:51:10Z 2015-12-19T11:51:10Z Pino Toscano pino@debian.org 2015-12-19T11:09:18Z urn:sha1:dbbe1e6393dab381db0f48b2a645babdddb14eca Testing /usr as TMPDIR assumes that GetTempDir() cannot use it because it cannot write to it; this is true for non-root users, but not so much for root. Since root can access everything, perform this particular test case only when not running as root. Closes: #808383 2015-12-10T09:02:21Z Julian Andres Klode jak@debian.org 2015-12-10T08:48:21Z urn:sha1:2fcd25a9e26093b8d1228107b5b0019675984114 required and important were swapped, leading to wrong output. Closes: #807523 Thanks: Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo for discovering this 2015-11-27T21:22:21Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-27T21:22:21Z urn:sha1:0300f0077af832e87beb290f26b13404cab81fd3 Seems like a simpler workaround than forcing a lower optimization level just for this for all of apt. See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-5/+bug/1473674 2015-11-19T16:13:56Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-19T12:28:17Z urn:sha1:bc7a59dded57338e9b5e523726b246dbdd4e0935 space-gapping: '-o option= value' That is a very old feature (straight from 1998), but it is super surprising if you try setting empty values and instead get error messages or a non-empty value as the next parameter is treated as the value – which could have been empty, so if for some reason you need a compatible way of setting an empty value try: '-o option="" ""'. I can only guess that the idea was to support '-o option value', but we survived 17 years without it, we will do fine in the future I guess. Similar is the case for '-t= testing' even through '-t testing' existed before and the code even tried to detect mistakes like '-t= -b' … all gone now. Technically that is as its removing a feature replacing it with another a major interface break. In practice I really hope for my and their sanity that nobody was using this; but if for some reaon you do: Remove the space and be done. I found the patch and the bugreport actually only after the fact, but its reassuring that others are puzzled by this as well and hence a thanks is in perfect order here as the patch is practical identical [expect that this one here adds tests and other bonus items]. Thanks: Daniel Hartwig for initial patch. Closes: 693092 2015-11-19T15:46:29Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-18T18:31:40Z urn:sha1:514a25cbcd2babb2a9c4485fc7b9a4256b7f6ff3 In 0940230d we started dropping privileges for file (and a bit later for copy, too) with the intend of uniforming this for all methods. The commit message says that the source will likely fail based on the compressors already – and there isn't much secret in the repository content. After all, after apt has run the update everyone can access the content via apt anyway… There are sources through which worked before which are mostly single-deb (and those with the uncompressed files available). The first one being especially surprising for users maybe, so instead of failing, we make it so that apt detects that it can't access a source as _apt and if so doesn't drop (for all sources!) privileges – but we limit this to file/copy, so the uncompress which might be needed will still fail – but that failed before this regression. We display a notice about this, mostly so that if it still fails (e.g. compressed) the user has some idea what is wrong. Closes: 805069 2015-11-05T11:21:33Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-04T22:38:40Z urn:sha1:4453cfdcf42f7fe6859bb0fc6b310a2a391bee77 Limit the field length to a char to avoid bogus FF for utf-8 characters with the default length. Closes: 799123 2015-11-05T11:21:33Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-04T20:08:55Z urn:sha1:258b9e512c4001e806c5c0966acecd3d742ec6e9 Reported-By: cppcheck Git-Dch: Ignore 2015-11-04T17:42:28Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-11-02T15:02:44Z urn:sha1:cd46d4ebd33e74ee53bbc73dcdb7fe1d4d006558 The wrapping will fail in the best case and actually end up deleting /dev/null in the worst case. Given that there is no point in trying to write atomically to /dev/null as you can't read from it again just ignore these flags if higher level code ends up trying to use them on /dev/null. 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. 2015-11-04T17:04:05Z David Kalnischkies david@kalnischkies.de 2015-10-27T08:57:26Z urn:sha1:8561c2fedae26aecd8ba758a5e7ef686ba1243f3 The general idea is: A small paragraph on the tool itself as a description, a list of the most used (!= all) commands available in the tool, a remark where to find more information on the tool and its commands (aka: in the manpage) and finally a common block referring to even more manpages. In exchange options are completely omitted from the output as well as deprecated or obscure commands. (Better) Information about them is available in the manpages anyway and the few options which were listed before were also the least interesting ones (-o -c -q and co are hardly of interest for someone totally new looking to find info by asking for help and anyone with a bit of experience doesn't need this short list. Those would need a list of options applying to the command they call, but they are too numerous and command specific to list them sanely in this context.