[pbs-devel] [RFC 0/4] Add GET /apt/changelog API call

[Stefan Reiter]

Long-buried ping...

I think we were waiting on some progress for updating our internal repos 
so we can use 'apt-get changelog' there too and don't require the 
workaround with HTTP retrieval. Any update?

(Definitely needs a rebase in any case)

On 7/28/20 10:58 AM, Stefan Reiter wrote:
> Allows a user to retrieve changelogs for individual packages. Compatible with
> the widget-toolkit's APT panel, works the same as in PVE.
> 
> Sent as RFC since it contains quite a bit of 'workaround' code. The initial idea
> was to replicate the way PVE does it right now, but that turned out to be very
> fragile with all the hardcoded URLs and whatnot (indicated by the fact that is
> indeed currently broken in PVE, I'll look at that soon).
> 
> So instead, after Discussion with Fabian, I opted to simply use 'apt-get
> changelog' - this works well for Debian packages, but not for ours, since our
> repo doesn't contain the changelogs at the place APT expects.
> 
> These patches therefore implement a rather weird in-between solution, where a
> HTTP GET to a fixed URL is used for our packages, and 'apt-get changelog
> [--print-uris]' is used for Debian ones.
> 
> If we can make our repos work with 'apt-get changelog' soon, or don't mind the
> changelogs for our packages unavailable in PBS for a while, I can send a v2
> dropping the 'tools::http' module and using 'apt-get' everywhere, without any
> new FIXMEs. If not, consider using it like this and I'll rework the code once
> our Repos support it.
> 
> @Fabian: the idea that you can pre-download packages and get changelogs that way
> appears moot, since as it turns out, packages only downloaded with 'apt-get -d
> install' are not checked by 'apt-get changelog', returning the same 404 error as
> before.
> 
> 
> proxmox-backup: Stefan Reiter (4):
>    apt: allow filter to select different package version
>    add tools::http for generic HTTP GET and move HttpsConnector there
>    apt: use 'apt-get changelog --print-uris' in get_changelog_url
>    apt: add /changelog API call similar to PVE
> 
>   src/api2/node/apt.rs      | 157 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>   src/client/http_client.rs |  64 +---------------
>   src/tools.rs              |   1 +
>   src/tools/http.rs         |  90 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   4 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 src/tools/http.rs
>