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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2016-03-09 21:23:21 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20160309212321-2qlkzj9tecepc8xq
Server: Add Python 3 compatibility

Add Python 3 compatibility by not using the python-avahi module.  Also
fix miscellaneous things which differs in Python 3.  Especially hard
to fix is loading and saving clients data between Python 3 and 2,
since pickle formats have problems with strings.

* INSTALL: Remove python-avahi (and change python-gobject to
  python-gi, which is preferred now).
* debian/control (Source: mandos/Build-Depends-Indep): Remove
  "python-avahi".
* mandos: Wrap future_builtins import in try-except clause.  Do not
  import avahi module.  Use codecs.decode(..., "base64) instead of
  .decode("base64).  Use .keys(), .values(), and .items() instead of
  .iterkeys(), .itervalues(), and .iteritems().
  (alternate_dbus_interfaces/wrapper): Python 3 still requires the
  "black magic", but luckily it still works.  The Python 3 type()
  constructor requires first argument to be a string, not a byte
  string.
  (copy_function): New.  Use throughout.
  (Avahi, avahi): New class and global variable.
  (GnuTLS._need_version): Changed to be a byte string.
  (main): Decode byte strings loaded from pickle file.
  (main/cleanup): Dump using pickle prototoc 2 which Python 2 can
  read.

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    "man -l mandos.8".
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*** Mandos Server
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    + GnuTLS 3.3          https://www.gnutls.org/
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      (but not 3.6.0 or later, until 3.6.6, which works)
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    + Avahi 0.6.16        https://www.avahi.org/
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    + Python 3           https://www.python.org/
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      Note: Python 2.7 is still supported, if the "mandos",
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      "mandos-ctl", and "mandos-monitor" files are edited to contain
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      "#!/usr/bin/python" instead of python3.
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4 https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
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    + PyGObject 3.8      https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + GnuTLS 3.3          http://www.gnutls.org/
 
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    + Avahi 0.6.16        http://www.avahi.org/
 
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    + Python 2.7          https://www.python.org/
 
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4  http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
 
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    + PyGObject 2.14.2    https://developer.gnome.org/pygobject/
 
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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    + Urwid 1.0.1         http://urwid.org/
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      (Only needed by the "mandos-monitor" tool.)
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    + ssh-keyscan from OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com/
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    Package names:
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    avahi-daemon python3 python3-dbus python3-gi python3-urwid
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    pkg-config fping ssh-client
 
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    avahi-daemon python python-dbus python-gi python-urwid pkg-config
 
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    fping ssh-client
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*** Mandos Client
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    + GNU C Library 2.17 https://gnu.org/software/libc/
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    + GnuTLS 3.3        https://www.gnutls.org/
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      (but not 3.6.0 or later, until 3.6.6 which works)
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    + Avahi 0.6.16      https://www.avahi.org/
 
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    + GNU C Library 2.16 https://gnu.org/software/libc/
 
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    + initramfs-tools 0.85i
 
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    + GnuTLS 3.3        http://www.gnutls.org/
 
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    + GnuPG 1.4.9       https://www.gnupg.org/
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    + GPGME 1.1.6       https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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    + libnl-route 3     https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/
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    + GLib 2.40         http://www.gtk.org/
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    + initramfs-tools 0.85i
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                        https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/initramfs-tools
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    + dracut 044+241
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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    + OpenSSH           http://www.openssh.com/
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    initramfs-tools dracut libgnutls-dev gnutls-bin libavahi-core-dev
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* Installing the Mandos server
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        # /usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d/mandos-client \
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                --pubkey=/etc/keys/mandos/pubkey.txt \
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     This command should retrieve the password from the server,
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     decrypt it, and output it to standard output.