Package apt: Information

Source package: apt
Version: 0.5.15lorg2-alt75
Build time:  Feb 11, 2022, 03:25 PM in the task #295130
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Home page: http://apt-rpm.org

Summary: Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool with RPM support
Description: 
A port of Debian's APT tools for RPM based distributions,
or at least for Conectiva. It provides the apt-get utility that
provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages.
APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source
capability and several other unique features.

This package is still under development.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
apt (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
apt-basic-checkinstall (noarch)
apt-checkinstall (noarch)
apt-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
apt-https (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
apt-https-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
apt-rsync (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
apt-rsync-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
apt-tests (noarch)
apt-under-pkdirect-checkinstall (noarch)
apt-xxtra-heavy-load-checkinstall (noarch)
libapt (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libapt-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)
libapt-devel (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, armh, aarch64)

Maintainer: Ivan Zakharyaschev


    1. liblua5.3-devel
    2. libgnutls-devel
    3. docbook-utils
    4. setproctitle-devel
    5. setproctitle-devel
    6. gcc-c++
    7. libreadline-devel
    8. librpm-devel

Last changed


Jan. 27, 2022 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.5.15lorg2-alt75
- Invalidate the in-memory cache of repositories when doing "update" or
  ListUpdate() to be able to detect updates without exiting the process,
  e.g., PackageKit or apt-shell (ALT#41816).
- Added apt-under-pkdirect-checkinstall subpackage
  and added a test for FileList() API via packagekit.
Dec. 4, 2021 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.5.15lorg2-alt74
- Implemented generic callback system for packagekit, allowing to show progress
  during offline-update to user. (Thx Oleg Solovyov mcpain@)
Oct. 29, 2021 Ivan Zakharyaschev 0.5.15lorg2-alt73
- (tests) Report if a test (marked XFAIL) uneXpectedly passes (XPASS).
- (tests) Run them not in %check, but in *-checkinstall subpkgs. (To break
  build-dep cycle with apt-repo-tools, whose features are required by the tests,
  but which needs to be recompiled to be linked with libapt.)
- (tests) Done more extensive testing of how apt works with "rpm" repos
  via any of the file, http(s), cdrom methods; including:
  + re-fetching if the saved complete or partial pkglist indices are corrupt
    (see https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40746#c9 );
  + the verification of the checksums of pkglist indices. (The verification
    is tested in two ways:
    * The verification of the checksum of a specific type is tested by faking
      it in the meta-data: for MD5, SHA1, SHA256, BLAKE2b and just the size.
    * Simply testing that a faked pkglist file of the same size is rejected--no
      matter which hashing algorithm is used.)
  + the verification of the checksums of rpm archives. (The verification
    is tested in two ways:
    * The verification of the checksum of a specific type is tested by faking
      it in the meta-data: for MD5, SHA1, SHA256, BLAKE2b.
    * Simply testing that a faked rpm file of the same size is rejected--no
      matter which hashing algorithm is used.)
- (source code; ABI) Reverted a lot of inessential optimizations
  from 0.5.15lorg2-alt72.
- (source code; ABI) Got rid of virtual methods with default parameters
  (because they are confusing for the programmer).
- (source code; ABI) Backported some pieces of the support for the multiplicity
  of checksum (and compression) types from apt-rpm (thx imz@):
  + the type of the compression for "pkglist" indices;
  + the type of the checksum for "pkglist" indices;
  + the type of the checksum for "rpm" archives.
- Added blake2b hash support (thx glebfm@).
- Changed file and copy download methods to always compute checksums
  (thx glebfm@).