Debian Bug report logs - #811181
apt: Please document auth.conf

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: apt: Please document auth.conf

Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 15:38:37 +0100

Package: apt
Version: 1.2
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

Some time ago I setup an authenticated https repo using auth.conf on
the client side, and recently I needed to replicate the setup on
another client, but had forgotten how to authenticate, and after
looking for a bit in the docs, could not remember what was the name
of the file nor the option. Once I got access to the server I
backtracked from there, and searched apt's git tree, and found only
the code references and one instance in the example config file.

It would be nice if the option, the file and its format could be
documented more prominently. :)

Thanks,
Guillem

Message #8 received at 811181-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>

To: 811181-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#811181 in apt marked as pending

Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:32:17 +0000

Control: tag 811181 pending

Hello,

Bug #811181 in apt reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the commit message below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:

    https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/diff/?id=ea408c5

(this message was generated automatically based on the git commit message)
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commit ea408c560ed85bb4ef7cf8f72f8463653501332c
Author: David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>
Date:   Fri Jul 7 16:24:21 2017 +0200

    reimplement and document auth.conf
    
    We have support for an netrc-like auth.conf file since 0.7.25 (closing
    518473), but it was never documented in apt that it even exists and
    netrc seems to have fallen out of usage as a manpage for it no longer
    exists making the feature even more arcane.
    
    On top of that the code was a bit of a mess (as it is written in c-style)
    and as a result the matching of machine tokens to URIs also a bit
    strange by checking for less specific matches (= without path) first.
    We now do a single pass over the stanzas.
    
    In practice early adopters of the undocumented implementation will not
    really notice the differences and the 'new' behaviour is simpler to
    document and more usual for an apt user.
    
    Closes: #811181

Message #15 received at 811181-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>

To: 811181-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#811181: fixed in apt 1.5~beta2

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 17:49:06 +0000

Source: apt
Source-Version: 1.5~beta2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 811181@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> (supplier of updated apt package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 19:28:00 +0200
Source: apt
Binary: apt libapt-pkg5.0 libapt-inst2.0 apt-doc libapt-pkg-dev libapt-pkg-doc apt-utils apt-transport-https
Architecture: source
Version: 1.5~beta2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Description:
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 apt-doc    - documentation for APT
 apt-transport-https - Transitional package: curl-https download transport for APT
 apt-utils  - package management related utility programs
 libapt-inst2.0 - deb package format runtime library
 libapt-pkg-dev - development files for APT's libapt-pkg and libapt-inst
 libapt-pkg-doc - documentation for APT development
 libapt-pkg5.0 - package management runtime library
Closes: 811181 858877 868127 869425 869557 870675 871275
Changes:
 apt (1.5~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ M. Willis Monroe ]
   * Minor grammar fix
 .
   [ Zhou Mo ]
   * zh_CN.po: update Simplified Chinese programs translation
 .
   [ David Kalnischkies ]
   * don't expect more downloads from failed transactions
   * remove reference to a-t-debtorrent in description
   * ignore SIGPIPE in dump solver if forwarding
   * support compressed extended_states file for bug triage
   * don't move failed pdiff indexes out of partial (Closes: 869425)
   * don't try to parse all fields starting with HTTP as status-line
   * send weak-only hashes to methods
   * fail earlier if server answers with too much data
   * fail early in http if server answer is too small as well
   * use FileFd to parse all apt configuration files
   * show warnings instead of errors if files are unreadable (LP: #1701852)
   * reimplement and document auth.conf (Closes: #811181)
   * lookup login info for proxies in auth.conf
   * allow the auth.conf to be root:root owned
   * update URI scheme descriptions in sources.list(5)
   * show a warning for Debian shutting down FTP services
   * suggest using auth.conf for sources with passwords
   * ftparchive: sort discovered filenames before writing indexes.
     Thanks to Chris Lamb for initial patch & Stefan Lippers-Hollmann for testing
     (Closes: 869557)
   * don't keep configuration files open needlessly
   * don't hang if multiple sources use unavailable method (Closes: 870675)
 .
   [ Beatrice Torracca ]
   * Italian manpage translation update (Closes: 858877)
 .
   [ Apollon Oikonomopoulos ]
   * Handle supported components with slashes in sources.list (Closes: #868127)
 .
   [ Julian Andres Klode ]
   * Drop cacheiterators.h include
   * methods/aptmethod.h: Add missing fileutl.h include
   * Reformat and sort all includes with clang-format
   * cacheiterators: Warn about direct include and don't include pkgcache.h
   * Update gitignore with new files
   * Use C++11 threading support instead of pthread
   * Always warn if --force-yes is validly specified, not just if used
   * Work around float rounding change in gcc 7 on i386
   * Handle GCC 7 std::string operator ABI break (Closes: #871275)
   * debian: Update symbols for libapt-pkg5.0
 .
   [ Paul Wise ]
   * Support zero delay for the various APT::Periodic activities
   * Support seconds, minutes, hours and days for APT::Periodic intervals
   * Switch from /org to /srv in example apt-ftparchive configuration
 .
   [ Balint Reczey ]
   * Gracefully terminate process when stopping apt-daily-upgrade (LP: #1690980)
 .
   [ Dominik ]
   * doc: Add '--allow-unauthenticated' to '--force-yes'
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