Re: [Tails-dev] apt-transport-https and torsocks

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Author: intrigeri
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To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor, The Tails public development discussion list
Old-Topics: [Tails-dev] apt-transport-https and torsocks
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] apt-transport-https and torsocks
Hi,

(fully quoting as it took us 7 months to reply; sorry about that!)

Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> i played around with augmenting a tails 3.12.1 installation today by
> adding an external apt repository, and found that i needed to add
> apt-transport-https (the repo in question was https-only). But
> apt-transport-https doesn't actually work on Tails 3.12.1, because it's
> not automagically wrapped in torsocks the way that, say, wget is.


> I don't want to relitigate
> https://redmine.tails.boum.org/code/issues/8143, but i'm wondering
> whether it would make sense to ship tails with apt-transport-https with
> a torsocks wrapper, so that these https repositories (which are at the
> very least no *worse* than http repos) would at least work for people.


> I believe that buster will ship with https transport baked into apt, and
> i don't know what the tails release schedule is for that, but i wanted
> to flag this as a potential concern for any buster-based tails releases
> as well.


I've tried in a development image that should be pretty close to
Tails 4.0 with this APT source:

deb tor+https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ buster main

… and it worked out of the box. So it looks like what you need will
come for free in 4.0 on Tuesday :)

Cheers,
--
intrigeri