Feature #8194

Have APT directly use the Tor SOCKS proxy

Added by intrigeri 2014-11-02 00:23:22 . Updated 2015-02-24 22:49:42 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Target version:
Tails_1.3
Start date:
2014-11-02
Due date:
% Done:

50%

Feature Branch:
feature/8194-APT-socks
Type of work:
Code
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Description

See parent ticket for the rationale and early work on this.

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Feature #8198: Replace tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor Resolved 2014-11-03
Blocks Tails - Feature #5307: Fix the Wheezy build in a nicer way Resolved

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-02 00:37:27

Failed to backport apt-transport-tor for Wheezy, asked the maintainer.

Someone should retry the shim idea, then, as documented on the parent ticket. I think that our build system now supports some APT breakage after hooks have been run, and we already cause such breakage with config/chroot_local-hooks/99-zzz_runtime_apt_proxy I think, so maybe we could as well do an elaborate s,http://,tor://, in APT sources.

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-03 10:52:50

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • Target version changed from Hardening_M1 to Tails_1.3
  • % Done changed from 0 to 50
  • QA Check set to Ready for QA
  • Feature Branch set to feature/8194-APT-socks

The shim works fine. Passes the apt, build and firewall_leaks automatic test suite features. Retargetting to 1.3, then :)

We should try to replace this trick with proper use of apt-transport-tor once we are based on Jessie.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-03 10:56:38

  • related to Feature #8198: Replace tor+http shim with apt-transport-tor added

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-03 11:13:34

Incidentally, this branch fixes the APT errors we’ve been seeing in the build log since the migration to Wheezy.

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2014-11-08 09:19:07

  • blocks Feature #5307: Fix the Wheezy build in a nicer way added

#6 Updated by alant 2014-12-23 16:11:44

  • Status changed from In Progress to Fix committed
  • QA Check changed from Ready for QA to Pass

Merged thanks!

#7 Updated by BitingBird 2015-02-24 22:49:42

  • Status changed from Fix committed to Resolved