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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2020-02-06 15:56:51 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 396.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20200206155651-kx7r39zj8hpv8udl
Use collections.abc.Callable instead of collections.Callable

In Python 3.7, collections.Callable (among others) was moved to
collections.abc.Callable, and its old location deprecated.

* mandos: Create "collections.abc.Callable" if it does not exist, and
  only use the new name.

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2023-10-21">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-24">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program is not meant to be run directly; it is really meant
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      to be run by other programs in the initial
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      <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment; see <xref
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      linkend="overview"/>.
 
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      to run as a plugin of the <application>Mandos</application>
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
 
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which runs in the
 
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      initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment because it is
 
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      specified as a <quote>keyscript</quote> in the <citerefentry>
 
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      <refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
 
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      </citerefentry> file.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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    <title>OPTIONS</title>
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    <para>
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      This program is commonly not invoked from the command line; it
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      is normally started by another program as described in <xref
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      linkend="description"/>.  Any command line options this program
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      accepts are therefore normally provided by the invoking program,
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      and not directly.
 
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      is normally started by the <application>Mandos</application>
 
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      plugin runner, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle
 
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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
 
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      </citerefentry>.  Any command line options this program accepts
 
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      are therefore normally provided by the plugin runner, and not
 
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      directly.
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    </para>
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    <variablelist>
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    <title>OVERVIEW</title>
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    <xi:include href="../overview.xml"/>
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    <para>
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      This program is the client part.  It is run automatically in an
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      initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, this program is started
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      by the <application>Mandos</application> <citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which in turn is
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      started automatically by the <citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry> <quote>Password Agent</quote> system.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      <refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry> environment, this program is started as a plugin
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which runs in the
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      initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment because it is
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      </citerefentry> file.
 
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      This program is the client part.  It is a plugin started by
 
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> which will run in
 
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program could, theoretically, be used as a keyscript in
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      <filename>/etc/crypttab</filename>, but it would then be
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      impossible to enter a password for the encrypted root disk at
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    <title>EXAMPLE</title>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>