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2015-08-14apt_preferences(5): Mention overlapping of pin matchesJulian Andres Klode
2015-08-14apt_preferences(5): Correct default pin assignment documentationJulian Andres Klode
This was broken, as higher pins were also assigned to versions that are installed. Closes: #623706
2015-08-14apt-cache(8): Mention that --names-only search providesJulian Andres Klode
Closes: #618017
2015-08-14Mention that source order only matter per versionJulian Andres Klode
Closes: #617445
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
2015-08-12apt_preferences(5): Re-document how priorities are calculatedJulian Andres Klode
The old text did not match either the old or the new implementation, so let's rewrite it to explain the new implementation. Closes: #554773
2015-08-12policy: Be more strict about parsing pin files, and document prio 0Julian Andres Klode
Treat invalid pin priorities and overflows as an error. Closes: #429912
2015-08-12use a=experimental instead n=experimental in pin documentationJohannes Schauer
Closes: 783343
2015-08-12Do not set unhonored DPKG_NO_TSTP variable for dpkgGuillem Jover
Support for that variable was removed in dpkg in 1.15.6, in commit 6f037003e8b96878b485efb7cbd1f846e3bf4e97. Closes: #765366
2015-08-12document VERSION 2 (and 3) pre-install-pkgs hook interfaceJonathan Nieder
[Commiter: Patch adapted to apply to current version of the manpage and added/moved a few words about Version 3 to make it fit better] Closes: 627188
2015-08-12remove Dir:: scope limit of RootDir in the documentationDavid Kalnischkies
RootDir doesn't only effect Dir-scope but all FindDir directories, so document it accordingly. Closes: 659387
2015-08-12po-fixups: fill Project-Id-Version and Encoding correctlyGuillem Jover
Closes: 612996
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.
2015-08-10rename '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.
2015-08-10implement Signed-By option for sources.listDavid Kalnischkies
Limits which key(s) can be used to sign a repository. Not immensely useful from a security perspective all by itself, but if the user has additional measures in place to confine a repository (like pinning) an attacker who gets the key for such a repository is limited to its potential and can't use the key to sign its attacks for an other (maybe less limited) repository… (yes, this is as weak as it sounds, but having the capability might come in handy for implementing other stuff later).
2015-08-10add sources.list Check-Valid-Until and Valid-Until-{Max,Min} optionsDavid Kalnischkies
These options could be set via configuration before, but the connection to the actual sources is so strong that they should really be set in the sources.list instead – especially as this can be done a lot more specific rather than e.g. disabling Valid-Until for all sources at once. Valid-Until-* names are chosen instead of the Min/Max-ValidTime as this seems like a better name and their use in the wild is probably low enough that this isn't going to confuse anyone if we have to names for the same thing in different areas. In the longrun, the config options should be removed, but for now documentation hinting at the new options is good enough as these are the kind of options you set once across many systems with different apt versions, so the new way should work everywhere first before we deprecate the old way.
2015-08-10detect and error out on conflicting Trusted settingsDavid Kalnischkies
A specific trust state can be enforced via a sources.list option, but it effects all entries handled by the same Release file, not just the entry it was given on so we enforce acknowledgement of this by requiring the same value to be (not) set on all such entries.
2015-08-10bring back deb822 sources.list entries as .sourcesDavid Kalnischkies
Having two different formats in the same file is very dirty and causes external tools to fail hard trying to parse them. It is probably not a good idea for them to parse them in the first place, but they do and we shouldn't break them if there is a better way. So we solve this issue for now by giving our deb822 format a new filename extension ".sources" which unsupporting applications are likely to ignore an can begin gradually moving forward rather than waiting for the unknown applications to catch up. Currently and for the forseeable future apt is going to support both with the same feature set as documented in the manpage, with the longtime plan of adopting the 'new' format as default, but that is a long way to go and might get going more from having an easier time setting options than from us pushing it explicitely.
2015-08-10support lang= and target= sources.list optionsDavid Kalnischkies
We support arch= for a while, now we finally add lang= as well and as a first simple way of controlling which targets to acquire also target=. This asked for a redesign of the internal API of parsing and storing information about 'deb' and 'deb-src' lines. As this API isn't visible to the outside no damage done through. Beside being a nice cleanup (= it actually does more in less lines) it also provides us with a predictable order of architectures as provides in the configuration rather than based on string sorting-order, so that now the native architecture is parsed/displayed first. Observeable e.g. in apt-get output.
2015-06-15provide a public interface for acquiring changelogsDavid Kalnischkies
Provided is a specialized acquire item which given a version can figure out the correct URI to try by itself and if not provides an error message alongside with static methods to get just the URI it would try to download if it should just be displayed or similar such. The URI is constructed as follows: Release files can provide an URI template in the "Changelogs" field, otherwise we lookup a configuration item based on the "Label" or "Origin" of the Release file to get a (hopefully known) default value for now. This template should contain the string CHANGEPATH which is replaced with the information about the version we want the changelog for (e.g. main/a/apt/apt_1.1). This middleway was choosen as this path part was consistent over the three known implementations (+1 defunct), while the rest of the URI varies widely between them. The benefit of this construct is that it is now easy to get changelogs for Debian packages on Ubuntu and vice versa – even at the moment where the Changelogs field is present nowhere. Strictly better than what apt-get had before as it would even fail to get changelogs from security… Now it will notice that security identifies as Origin: Debian and pick this setting (assuming again that no Changelogs field exists). If on the other hand security would ship its changelogs in a different location we could set it via the Label option overruling Origin. Closes: 687147, 739854, 784027, 787190
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
2015-06-11implement 'apt-get files' to access index targetsDavid Kalnischkies
Downloading additional files is only half the job. We still need a way to allow external tools to know where the files are they requested for download given that we don't want them to choose their own location. 'apt-get files' is our answer to this showing by default in a deb822 format information about each IndexTarget with the potential to filter the records based on lines and an option to change the output format. The command serves also as an example on how to get to this information via libapt.
2015-06-10store all targets data in IndexTarget structDavid Kalnischkies
We still need an API for the targets, so slowly prepare the IndexTargets to let them take this job. Git-Dch: Ignore
2015-06-09configureable acquire targets to download additional filesDavid Kalnischkies
First pass at making the acquire system capable of downloading files based on configuration rather than hardcoded entries. It is now possible to instruct 'deb' and 'deb-src' sources.list lines to download more than just Packages/Translation-* and Sources files. Details on how to do that can be found in the included documentation file.
2015-04-19Merge branch 'debian/jessie' into debian/experimentalDavid Kalnischkies
Conflicts: apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc cmdline/apt-key.in methods/https.cc test/integration/test-apt-key test/integration/test-multiarch-foreign
2015-04-13release 1.0.9.8David Kalnischkies
2015-03-16Italian manpage translation updateBeatrice Torracca
Closes: 776702
2015-03-16properly implement pkgRecord::Parser for *.deb filesDavid Kalnischkies
Implementing FileName() works for most cases for us, but other frontends might need more and even for us its not very stable as the normal Jump() implementation is pretty bad on a deb file and produce errors on its own at times. So, replacing this makeshift with a complete implementation by mostly just shuffling code around.
2015-03-16merge debian/sid into debian/experimentalDavid Kalnischkies
2015-01-16prepare 1.0.9.61.0.9.6Michael Vogt
2014-12-23release 1.0.9.51.0.9.5David Kalnischkies
2014-12-22French manpages translation updateJean-Pierre Giraud
Closes: 771967
2014-12-03release 1.0.9.41.0.9.4David Kalnischkies
2014-11-10change codenames to jessie as stable POV in docsDavid Kalnischkies
2014-11-06Run ./prepare-release pre-exportMichael Vogt
Git-dch: ignore
2014-11-05Merge branch 'debian/sid' into debian/experimentalMichael Vogt
Conflicts: debian/changelog
2014-10-22doc/examples/configure-index: make "Dpkg::Max{Arg,ArgBytes} match realityMichael Vogt
Git-Dch: ignore
2014-10-14Merge branch 'debian/sid' into debian/experimentalMichael Vogt
2014-10-13Document ↵Michael Vogt
Acquire{MaxReleaseFileSize,AllowInsecureRepositories,AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories} and --no-allow-insecure-repositories Document the new options to restrict loading unauthenticated data into our parsers.
2014-10-08Update Status field values handlingGuillem Jover
Remove long obsolete (hold, hold-reinstreq, removal-failed) or just wrong (post-inst-failed vs postinst-failed) values, that have been autoconverted by dpkg at run-time to their new equivalents, so there should not be any such instance in any recent system (removal-failed since dpkg 1.1.4 in Apr 1996, hold and hold-reinstreq since dpkg 1.2.0 in May 1996). dpkg even stopped doing the mapping in 1.15.4 and 1.15.8 respectively. At the same time sort the list in the same order as they appear in the dpkg code.
2014-10-01Use Acquire::Allow{InsecureRepositories,DowngradeToInsecureRepositories}Michael Vogt
The configuration key Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories controls if apt allows loading of unsigned repositories at all. The configuration Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories controls if a signed repository can ever become unsigned. This should really never be needed but we provide it to avoid having to mess around in /var/lib/apt/lists if there is a use-case for this (which I can't think of right now).
2014-09-29Merge branch 'debian/sid' into debian/experimentalMichael Vogt
Conflicts: apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc
2014-09-28Set STRIP_FROM_PATH for doxygenTrần Ngọc Quân
Signed-off-by: Trần Ngọc Quân <vnwildman@gmail.com>
2014-09-23Merge branch 'debian/sid' into debian/experimentalMichael Vogt
Conflicts: apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc apt-pkg/acquire-item.h apt-pkg/cachefilter.h configure.ac debian/changelog
2014-09-19disable timestamps in the footer of docs by doxygenJérémy Bobbio
The default being 'yes', but this spoils the effort of reproducible builds for no real gain. (https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds)
2014-09-18./pre-release pre-exportMichael Vogt
2014-09-14Updated German documentation translationChris Leick
2014-09-09prepare 1.0.81.0.8Michael Vogt