add-apt-repository should have option to use port 80

[Niall Gallagher]

keyserver.ubuntu.com now listens on port 80 as well as port 11371 - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/524416

However by default, the add-apt-repository command still uses port 11371, which does not work behind a firewall, and it does not provide an option to use port 80 instead.

This bug is to request that add-apt-repository get an option to use port 80 (e.g. command line switch), or to use port 80 by default.

There is a similar suggestion mentioned here, but it has not actually been filed as a bug: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+question/79193

FYI for the meantime I found instructions for modifying add-apt-repository to use port 80 here: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/how-to-add-repositories-to-ubuntu-from-behind-a-firewall/

[kurt belgrave (trinikrono)]

Assigning to software-properties
Can you look at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/516032
especially comment #9 and see if this works for you

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

add-apt-repository uses port 80, in Natty, for PPAs. If this fixes your particular use case please set this bug's status to Fix Released. Thanks for helping out!

[Niall Gallagher (npgall)]

@Kurt the comment #9 is the same workaround that I linked to above actually i.e. how to modify the command to use port 80. It does work thanks, i'm using that in the meantime.

@Brian that's good news, if so then this issue will be solved in Natty. Sounds like the problem has already been addressed! Changing to Fix Released.

[Jeremy Yoder (jyoder)]

Could this be backported to Lucid, or perhaps a simple version of it?

This should be enough, applied to python-software-properties version 0.75.10.1:
--- /usr/share/pyshared/softwareproperties/ppa.py.orig 2010-04-14 15:05:59.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/share/pyshared/softwareproperties/ppa.py 2011-06-27 17:14:13.027023115 -0400
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
             # FIXME: this needs to go - elmo says the keyserver will not handle
             # the load
             res = subprocess.call(
- ["apt-key", "adv", "--keyserver", "keyserver.ubuntu.com",
+ ["apt-key", "adv", "--keyserver", "hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80",
                  "--recv", signing_key_fingerprint[0]])
             return (res == 0)
         except URLError, e: