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2015-09-01use clock() as source for SRV randomnessDavid Kalnischkies
Initializing a random number generator with the time since epoch could be good enough, but reaches its limits in test code as the 100 iterations might very well happen in the same second and hence the seed number is always the same… clock() has a way lower resolution so it changes more often and not unimportant: If many users start the update at the same time it isn't to unlikely the SRV record will be ordered in the same second choosing the same for them all, but it seems less likely that the exact same clock() time has passed for them. And if I have to touch this, lets change a few other things as well to make me and/or compilers a bit happier (clang complained about the usage of a GNU extension in the testcase for example).
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.
2015-08-18cleanupMichael Vogt
2015-08-18Merge branch 'debian/experimental' into feature/srv-recordsMichael Vogt
Conflicts: cmdline/apt-helper.cc cmdline/makefile
2015-04-10add a simple unit test for acquire progressDavid Kalnischkies
This isn't testing much of the 'complex' parts, but its better than nothing for now. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-03-16stop displaying time of build in online helpJérémy Bobbio
As part of the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that apt could not be built reproducibly. One issue is that it uses the __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros of the C preprocessor to display the time of build in the online help. We believe this information not to be really useful to users as they can always look at the package data and metadata to figure it out. The attached patch simply removes this information. All non-documentation packages can then be built reproducibly with our current experimental framework. [David: changed the string slightly to be untranslateable as well] Closes: 774342
2014-12-09dispose http(s) 416 error page as non-contentDavid Kalnischkies
Real webservers (like apache) actually send an error page with a 416 response, but our client didn't expect it leaving the page on the socket to be parsed as response for the next request (http) or as file content (https), which isn't what we want at all… Symptom is a "Bad header line" as html usually doesn't parse that well to an http-header. This manifests itself e.g. if we have a complete file (or larger) in partial/ which isn't discarded by If-Range as the server doesn't support it (or it is just newer, think: mirror rotation). It is a sort-of regression of 78c72d0ce22e00b194251445aae306df357d5c1a, which removed the filesize - 1 trick, but this had its own problems… To properly test this our webserver gains the ability to reply with transfer-encoding: chunked as most real webservers will use it to send the dynamically generated error pages. Closes: 768797
2014-11-09streamline display of --help in all toolsDavid Kalnischkies
By convention, if I run a tool with --help or --version I expect it to exit successfully with the usage, while if I do call it wrong (like without any parameters) I expect the usage message shown with a non-zero exit.
2014-10-15don't drop privileges if _apt has not enough rightsDavid Kalnischkies
Privilege dropping breaks download/source/changelog commands as they require the _apt user to have write permissions in the current directory, which is e.g. the case in /tmp, but not in /root, so we disable the privilege dropping if we deal with such a directory based on idea and code by Michael Vogt. The alternative would be to download always to a temp directory and move it then done, but this breaks partial file support. To resolve this, we could move to one of our partial/ directories, but this would require a lock which would block root from using two of these commands in parallel. As both seems unacceptable we instead let the user choose what to do: Either a directory is setupped for _apt, downloading as root is accepted or – which is potentially even better – an unprivileged user is used for the commands.
2014-10-07ensure partial dirs are 0700 and owned by _apt:rootDavid Kalnischkies
Reworks the API involved in creating and setting up the fetcher to be a bit more pleasent to look at and work with as e.g. an empty string for no lock isn't very nice. With the lock we can also stop creating all our partial directories "just in case". This way we can also be a bit more aggressive with the partial directory itself as with a lock, we know we will gone need it.
2014-09-27allow fetcher setup without directory creationDavid Kalnischkies
apt-get download and changelog as well as apt-helper reuse the acquire system for their own proposes without requiring the directories the fetcher wants to create, which is a problem if you run them as non-root and the directories do not exist as it greets you with: E: Archives directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing. - Acquire (13: Permission denied) Closes: 762898
2014-09-02Make Proxy-Auto-Detect check for each hostMichael Vogt
When doing Acquire::http{,s}::Proxy-Auto-Detect, run the auto-detect command for each host instead of only once. This should make using "proxy" from libproxy-tools feasible which can then be used for PAC style or other proxy configurations. Closes: #759264
2014-06-06cmdline/apt-helper.cc: use less generic description/short-descriptionMichael Vogt
2014-05-20add GetSrvRecord helper to apt-pkg/contrib/srvrec.{cc,h}Michael Vogt
2014-03-14fix test/integration/test-apt-helperMichael Vogt
2014-03-13improve debug output in case downloadfile failsDavid Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore
2014-03-13cleanup headers and especially #includes everywhereDavid Kalnischkies
Beside being a bit cleaner it hopefully also resolves oddball problems I have with high levels of parallel jobs. Git-Dch: Ignore Reported-By: iwyu (include-what-you-use)
2014-03-13warning: unused parameter ‘foo’ [-Wunused-parameter]David Kalnischkies
Reported-By: gcc -Wunused-parameter Git-Dch: Ignore
2014-03-13warning: no previous declaration for foobar() [-Wmissing-declarations]David Kalnischkies
Git-Dch: Ignore Reported-By: gcc -Wmissing-declarations
2014-03-12Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/debian/sid' into ↵Michael Vogt
feature/apt-download-file Conflicts: cmdline/apt-helper.cc test/integration/framework test/integration/test-apt-https-no-redirect
2014-03-12add hashsum support in apt-file download and add more testsMichael Vogt
2014-02-27initial version of apt-helperMichael Vogt
2014-02-27initial version of apt-helperMichael Vogt