Curl will try IPv4 as a backup if IPv6 fails, and we don't want that.

Tell it not to.

Also detect if IPv6 is even available.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apt-panopticommon.lua b/apt-panopticommon.lua
index e40ec0a..7664297 100644
--- a/apt-panopticommon.lua
+++ b/apt-panopticommon.lua
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ APT.verbosity = -1
 APT.origin = false
 APT.redir = false
 APT.keep = false
+APT.IPv46 = ''
 
 APT.options =
 {
@@ -119,6 +120,10 @@ APT.parseArgs = function(args)
     APT.args = args
     local arg = {}
     local sendArgs = ""
+    -- A special test to disable IPv6 tests if IPv6 isn't available.
+    if 1 == APT.exe('ip -6 addr | grep inet6 | grep " global"'):Do().status then
+        table.insert(args, '--tests=-IPv6')
+    end
     if 0 ~= #(args) then
         local option = ""
         for i, a in pairs(args) do
@@ -132,6 +137,9 @@ APT.parseArgs = function(args)
             elseif "-q" == a then
                 APT.verbosity = -1
                 sendArgs = sendArgs .. a .. " "
+            elseif ("-4" == a) or ("-6" == a) then
+                APT.IPv46 = a
+                sendArgs = sendArgs .. a .. " "
             elseif "-k" == a then
                 APT.keep = true
                 sendArgs = sendArgs .. a .. " "