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2015-11-04revamp all tools help messagesDavid Kalnischkies
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.
2015-11-04show version and type in "apt (r)depends"David Kalnischkies
We can't for compatibility reasons in apt-cache, but apt can. Closes: 218995
2015-11-04hidden support more apt-get/apt-cache commands in aptDavid Kalnischkies
apt is supposed to be a user-friendly interface, so while these commands are usually poweruser material and therefore do not need to be shown in general introduction manpages/help messages its of no use to not allow users to use them. This includes clean, autoclean, build-dep, source, download, changelog, depends, rdepends and showsrc – it doesn't include more non-interactive commands like dump or xvcg as those are usually used by scripts if at all. Closes: 778234, 780700, 781237
2015-11-04deal with --version more centrallyDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04move apts cmdline helper type into -privateDavid Kalnischkies
Its not as simple as I initially thought to abstract this enough to make it globally usable, so lets not pollute global namespace with this for now. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04generate commands array after config is loadedDavid Kalnischkies
This ensures that location strings loaded from a location specified via configuration (Dir::Locale) effect the help messages for commands. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04new quiet level -qq for apt to hide progress outputDavid Kalnischkies
-q is for logging and -qqq (old -qq) basically kills every output expect errors, so there should be a way of declaring a middleground in which the output of e.g. 'update' isn't as verbose, but still shows some things. The test framework was actually making use of by accident as it ignored the quiet level in output setup for apt before. Eventually we should figure out some better quiet levels for all tools…
2015-11-04deduplicate main methodsDavid Kalnischkies
All mains pretty much do the same thing, so lets try a little harder to move the common parts into -private to have the real differences more visible. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04split up help messages for simpler reuseDavid Kalnischkies
That is one huge commit with busy work only: Help messages used to be one big translateable string, which is a pain for translators and hard to reuse for us. This change there 'explodes' this single string into new string for each documented string trying hard to split up the translated messages as well. This actually restores many translations as previously adding a single command made all of the bug message fuzzy. The splitup also highlighted that its easy to forget a line, duplicate one and similar stuff. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04disable updating insecure repositories in apt by defaultDavid Kalnischkies
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.
2015-11-04move 'search' implementations as wellDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04centralize 'show' implementation of apt and apt-cacheDavid Kalnischkies
The show commands have different styles in both binaries as the audience is potentially very different, but that doesn't mean we need to separate the implementation especially as they are slightly similar. This also allows us to switch between the different show versions at runtime via an option. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-11-04add binary-specific options via Binary scopeDavid Kalnischkies
Especially with apt now, it can be useful to set an option only for apt and not for apt-get. Using a binary-specific subtree which is merged into the root seems like a simple enough trick to achieve this.
2015-11-04suggest 'apt autoremove' to get right of unneeded packagesDavid Kalnischkies
The bugreport is more conservative in asking for a conditional, but given that this is a message intended to be read by users to be run by users we should suggest using a command intended to be used by users. And while we are at, add sudo to the message – conditional of course. Closes: 801571
2015-11-04support .deb files in upgrade operations as wellDavid Kalnischkies
The main part is refactoring through to allow hiding the magic needed to support .deb files in deeper layers of libapt so that frontends have less exposure to Debian specific classes like debDebPkgFileIndex.
2015-11-04allow all dpkg selections to be set via apt-mark and libaptDavid Kalnischkies
As we have support for 'hold', we need support for undoing a hold which in effect means that we implemented most other states as well, just that they weren't exposed in the interface directly so far.
2015-10-20Allow -i and -u as aliases for installed and upgradable in listJulian Andres Klode
This makes things much easier to use
2015-09-14avoid using global PendingError to avoid failing too often too soonDavid Kalnischkies
Our error reporting is historically grown into some kind of mess. A while ago I implemented stacking for the global error which is used in this commit now to wrap calls to functions which do not report (all) errors via return, so that only failures in those calls cause a failure to propergate down the chain rather than failing if anything (potentially totally unrelated) has failed at some point in the past. This way we can avoid stopping the entire acquire process just because a single source produced an error for example. It also means that after the acquire process the cache is generated – even if the acquire process had failures – as we still have the old good data around we can and should generate a cache for (again). There are probably more instances of this hiding, but all these looked like the easiest to work with and fix with reasonable (aka net-positive) effects.
2015-09-14do not discard new manual-bits while applying EDSP solutionsDavid Kalnischkies
In private-install.cc we call MarkInstall with FromUser=true, which sets the bit accordingly, but while applying the EDSP solution we call mark install on all packages with FromUser=false, so MarkInstall believes this install is an automatic one and sets it to auto – so that a new package which is explicitely installed via an external solver is marked as auto and is hence also up for garbage collection in a following call. Ideally MarkInstall wouldn't reset it, but the detection is hard to do without regressing in other cases – and ideally ideally MarkInstall wouldn't deal with the autobit at all – so we work around this on the calling side for now.
2015-09-14implement dpkgs vision of interpreting pkg:<arch> dependenciesDavid Kalnischkies
How the Multi-Arch field and pkg:<arch> dependencies interact was discussed at DebConf15 in the "MultiArch BoF". dpkg and apt (among other tools like dose) had a different interpretation in certain scenarios which we resolved by agreeing on dpkg view – and this commit realizes this agreement in code. As was the case so far libapt sticks to the idea of trying to hide MultiArch as much as possible from individual frontends and instead translates it to good old SingleArch. There are certainly situations which can be improved in frontends if they know that MultiArch is upon them, but these are improvements – not necessary changes needed to unbreak a frontend. The implementation idea is simple: If we parse a dependency on foo:amd64 the dependency is formed on a package 'foo:amd64' of arch 'any'. This package is provided by package 'foo' of arch 'amd64', but not by 'foo' of arch 'i386'. Both of those foo packages provide each other through (assuming foo is M-A:foreign) to allow a dependency on 'foo' to be satisfied by either foo of amd64 or i386. Packages can also declare to provide 'foo:amd64' which is translated to providing 'foo:amd64:any' as well. This indirection over provides was chosen as the alternative would be to teach dependency resolvers how to deal with architecture specific dependencies – which violates the design idea of avoiding resolver changes, especially as architecture-specific dependencies are a cornercase with quite a few subtil rules. Handling it all over versioned provides as we already did for M-A in general seems much simpler as it just works for them. This switch to :any has actually a "surprising" benefit as well: Even frontends showing a package name via .Name() [which doesn't show the architecture] will display the "architecture" for dependencies in which it was explicitely requested, while we will not show the 'strange' :any arch in FullName(true) [= pretty-print] either. Before you had to specialcase these and by default you wouldn't get these details shown. The only identifiable disadvantage is that this complicates error reporting and handling. apt-get's ShowBroken has existing problems with virtual packages [it just shows the name without any reason], so that has to be worked on eventually. The other case is that detecting if a package is completely unknown or if it was at least referenced somewhere needs to acount for this "split" – not that it makes a practical difference which error is shown… but its one of the improvements possible.
2015-08-31if file is inaccessible for _apt, disable privilege drop in acquireDavid Kalnischkies
We had a very similar method previously for our own private usage, but with some generalisation we can move this check into the acquire system proper so that all frontends profit from this compatibility change. As we are disabling a security feature here a warning is issued and frontends are advised to consider reworking their download logic if possible. Note that this is implemented as an all or nothing situation: We can't just (not) drop privileges for a subset of the files in a fetcher, so in case you have to download some files with and some without you need to use two fetchers.
2015-08-27install: Set a local deb as the candidate for that packageJulian Andres Klode
This ensures that we can install .deb files that are not the candidate for a given package.
2015-08-18Add support for "apt-cache showsrc --only-source srcpkgname"Michael Vogt
Thanks: Steve Slangasek for the suggestion Closes: 695633
2015-08-17Re-add support for G++ 4.8 and configure travis to use itJulian Andres Klode
This makes tests work again! Gbp-Dch: ignore
2015-08-17Do not crash in 'apt show' for non-installed packagesJulian Andres Klode
For a non-installed package, manual_installed was set to the null pointer. This was passed to Tag::Rewrite, which expects an string (empty for null-type values) and the conversion from null pointer to string does not work correctly.
2015-08-16Replace "extra" in "the following extra packages [...]" by "additional"Julian Andres Klode
This breaks the translation for no big gain, but we broke enough strings already for that to not really matter anymore. Closes: #82430
2015-08-16install: If package already is the newest version, display versionJulian Andres Klode
Also do it unconditionally, as it does not hurt. Closes: #315149
2015-08-15update: Check if the cache could be opened, don't just assume itJulian Andres Klode
This seems to cause Bug#756162, as in that case the depcache was NULL. I'm not entirely sure how that happens, but it's better to be check here rather then crash later on. Closes: #756162
2015-08-14Make auto-remove and auto-clean aliases for the versions without -Julian Andres Klode
Some people type them instead of autoremove and autoclean, so make them happy. Closes: #274159 Makes-Happy: Ansgar
2015-08-14Replace --force-yes by various options starting with --allowJulian Andres Klode
This enables more fine grained control over such exceptions.
2015-08-14Merge branch 'debian/experimental' of https://github.com/DonKult/apt into ↵Julian Andres Klode
debian/experimental
2015-08-13Accept --upgradeable as synonym for --upgradableJulian Andres Klode
It's a tiny diff, so why not? But no need to document it. Closes: #787846
2015-08-13Mark SPtr as deprecated, and convert users to std::unique_ptrJulian Andres Klode
Switch to std::unique_ptr, as this is safer than SPtr.
2015-08-12Replace all "press enter" occurrences with "press [Enter]"Luca Bruno
Thanks: Andre Felipe Machado for initial patch Closes: 414848
2015-08-11Annotate more methods with APT_OVERRIDEJulian Andres Klode
Gbp-Dch: ignore Reported-By: g++ -Wsuggest-override Thanks: g++ -Wsuggest-override
2015-08-10add volatile sources support in libapt-pkgDavid Kalnischkies
Sources are usually defined in sources.list (and co) and are pretty stable, but once in a while a frontend might want to add an additional "source" like a local .deb file to install this package (No support for 'real' sources being added this way as this is a multistep process). We had a hack in place to allow apt-get and apt to pull this of for a short while now, but other frontends are either left in the cold by this and/or the code for it looks dirty with FIXMEs plastering it and has on top of this also some problems (like including these 'volatile' sources in the srcpkgcache.bin file). So the biggest part in this commit is actually the rewrite of the cache generation as it is now potentially a three step process. The biggest problem with adding support now through is that this makes a bunch of previously mostly unusable by externs and therefore hidden classes public, so a bit of further tuneing on this now public API is in order…
2015-08-10hide implicit deps in apt-cache again by defaultDavid Kalnischkies
Before MultiArch implicits weren't a thing, so they were hidden by default by definition. Adding them for MultiArch solved many problems, but having no reliable way of detecting which dependency (and provides) is implicit or not causes problems everytime we want to output dependencies without confusing our observers with unneeded implementation details. The really notworthy point here is actually that we keep now a better record of how a dependency came to be so that we can later reason about it more easily, but that is hidden so deep down in the library internals that change is more the problems it solves than the change itself.
2015-08-10remove the compatibility markers for 4.13 abiDavid Kalnischkies
We aren't and we will not be really compatible again with the previous stable abi, so lets drop these markers (which never made it into a released version) for good as they have outlived their intend already. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-08-10avoid virtual in the iteratorsDavid Kalnischkies
With a bit of trickery and the Curiously recurring template pattern we can free us from our use of virtual in the iterators were it is unneeded bloat as we never deal with pointers to iterators and similar such. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-08-10show or-groups in not-installed recommends and suggests listsDavid Kalnischkies
Further abstracting our new ShowList allows to use it for containers of strings as well giving us the option to implement an or-groups display for the recommends and suggests lists which is a nice trick given that it also helps with migrating the last remaining other cases of old ShowList.
2015-08-10headers are for declarations onlyDavid Kalnischkies
Housekeeping. This used to be embedded in apt-get directly, then moved to into our (then new) private lib and now header and code get a proper separation. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-08-10implement a more generic ShowList methodDavid Kalnischkies
apt-get is displaying various lists of package names, which until now it was building as a string before passing it to ShowList, which inserted linebreaks at fitting points and showed a title if needed, but it never really understood what it was working with. With the help of C++11 the new generic knows not only what it works with, but generates the list on the fly rather than asking for it and potentially discarding parts of the input (= the non-default verbose display). It also doubles as a test for how usable the CacheSets are with C++11. (Not all callers are adapted yet.) Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-08-10rename 'apt-get files' to 'apt-get indextargets'David Kalnischkies
'files' is a bit too generic as a name for a command usually only used programmatically (if at all) by developers, so instead of "wasting" this generic name for this we use "indextargets" which is actually the name of the datastructure the displayed data is stored in. Along with this rename the config options are renamed accordingly.
2015-08-10disable locking even for root in --simulateDavid Kalnischkies
Six years ago in 55a5a46c235a30bf024fb2301066553953701cc5 apt-get learned to disable locking if run as normal user and show a message. Helmut Grohne rightly suggests on IRC now that there isn't much point in getting the locks for root either as the output isn't in any way more authoritive than without locking given that after this call the lock is freed and any action can sneak in before we make the next call. So we exchange no benefit for the disavantage of blocking real calls. This can be especially confusing with the aliases --no-act and --just-print. We do not print the message we print for users through as the non-root users can be confronted with a lot more difference via unreadable files.
2015-08-10add c++11 override marker to overridden methodsDavid Kalnischkies
C++11 adds the 'override' specifier to mark that a method is overriding a base class method and error out if not. We hide it in the APT_OVERRIDE macro to ensure that we keep compiling in pre-c++11 standards. Reported-By: clang-modernize -add-override -override-macros Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-08-10prepare cachesets for -std=c++11David Kalnischkies
The "problem" is mostly in the erase() definitions as they slightly conflict and in pre-c++11 are not uniformly in different containers. By differenciating based on the standard we can provide erase() methods for both standards – and as the method is in a template and inline we don't need to worry about symbols here. The rest is adding wrappings for the new forward_list and unordered_set containers and correcting our iterators to use the same trait as the iterator they are wrapping instead of having all of them be simple forward iterators. This allows the use of specialized algorithms which are picked based on iterator_traits and implementing them all is simple to do as we can declare all methods easily and only if they are called they will generate errors (if the underlying iterator doesn't support these). Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-08-10fix memory leaks reported by -fsanitizeDavid Kalnischkies
Various small leaks here and there. Nothing particularily big, but still good to fix. Found by the sanitizers while running our testcases. Reported-By: gcc -fsanitize Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-06-15condense parallel requests with the same hashes to oneDavid Kalnischkies
It shouldn't be too common, but sometimes people have multiple mirrors in the sources or otherwise repositories with the same content. Now that we gracefully can handle multiple requests to the same URI, we can also fold multiple requests with the same expected hashes into one. Note that this isn't trying to find oppertunities for merging, but just merges if it happens to encounter the oppertunity for it. This is most obvious in the new testcase actually as it needs to delay the action to give the acquire system enough time to figure out that they can be merged.
2015-06-15show item ID in Hit, Ign and Err lines as wellDavid Kalnischkies
Again, consistency is the main sellingpoint here, but this way it is now also easier to explain that some files move through different stages and lines are printed for them hence multiple times: That is a bit hard to believe if the number is changing all the time, but now that it keeps consistent.
2015-06-15implement default apt-get file --release-info modeDavid Kalnischkies
Selecting targets based on the Release they belong to isn't to unrealistic. In fact, it is assumed to be the most used case so it is made the default especially as this allows to bundle another thing we have to be careful with: Filenames and only showing targets we have acquired. Closes: 752702