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Aptdaemon Changelog

What's new in Aptdaemon 0.42

Feb 24, 2011
  • The UpdateCachePartially method allows to specify an alternative sources.list snippet to only update the repositories specified in the corresponding configuration file.
  • Aptdaemon did not restrict the path to the sources.list.d directory and allowed to inject packages from malicious sources specified in a custom sources.list and even to read every file on the system.

New in Aptdaemon 0.32 (Aug 20, 2010)

  • PolicyKit1:
  • Add a new privilege org.debian.apt.set-proxy which allows to set an http proxy server for a transaction. Currently every active user is allowed to set a proxy for his or her transactions.
  • entry points:
  • Add modify_cache_before and modify_cache_after entry point which make it possible for plugins to modify the to be installed or removed packages of a transaction. See README.Plugins for further details.
  • client Python module:
  • Allow to convert all methods into Deferreds by using the deferable_function decorator, see below for more details.
  • Add a downloads attribute to AptTransaction. It contains a dictionary of all processed downloads. The key is the uri of the download. The value is a tuple of status enum, short de...