apt: query the Launchpad PPA API through the shared HTTP client

src/apt/keyring.rs

@@ -198,7 +198,12 @@ fn validate_keyring_dir(dir_uid: u32, mode: u32, euid: u32) -> Result<(), String
     Ok(())
 }
 
-/// Download and import a PPA key using Launchpad API
+/// Download and import a PPA key using the Launchpad API
+///
+/// The signing key fingerprint is looked up through the shared HTTP client;
+/// the key itself is fetched from the keyserver with curl through the
+/// context, because the key file must land in the context's filesystem
+/// (which may be remote).
 ///
 /// # Arguments
 /// * `ctx` - Optional context to use
@@ -229,33 +234,36 @@ pub async fn download_trust_ppa_key(
         ppa_name
     );
 
-    // Get PPA information from Launchpad API to get signing key fingerprint
-    // Use the correct devel API endpoint
-    let api_url = format!(
-        "https://api.launchpad.net/1.0/~{}/+archive/ubuntu/{}",
-        ppa_owner, ppa_name
-    );
+    // Get PPA information from the Launchpad API to get the signing key
+    // fingerprint. The query is context-independent metadata, so it goes
+    // through the shared HTTP client (timeouts, retries) rather than
+    // shelling out to curl.
+    let api_url = crate::launchpad::archive_url(ppa_owner, ppa_name);
     log::debug!("Querying Launchpad API: {}", api_url);
 
-    let api_response = ctx
-        .command("curl")
-        .arg("-s")
-        .arg("-f")
-        .arg("-H")
-        .arg("Accept: application/json")
-        .arg(&api_url)
-        .output()?;
-
-    if !api_response.status.success() {
+    let response = distro_info::http_get_retried(&api_url).await.map_err(|e| {
+        format!(
+            "Failed to query Launchpad API for PPA {}/{}: {}",
+            ppa_owner, ppa_name, e
+        )
+    })?;
+    if !response.status().is_success() {
         return Err(format!(
-            "Failed to query Launchpad API for PPA {}/{}",
-            ppa_owner, ppa_name
+            "Failed to query Launchpad API for PPA {}/{}: HTTP {}",
+            ppa_owner,
+            ppa_name,
+            response.status()
         )
         .into());
     }
 
     // Parse the JSON response to extract the signing key fingerprint
-    let api_response_str = String::from_utf8_lossy(&api_response.stdout);
+    let api_response_str = response.text().await.map_err(|e| {
+        format!(
+            "Failed to read the Launchpad API response for PPA {}/{}: {}",
+            ppa_owner, ppa_name, e
+        )
+    })?;
     let ppa_response: LaunchpadPpaResponse =
         serde_json::from_str(&api_response_str).map_err(|e| {
             format!(

src/launchpad.rs

@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ fn person_url(user: &str) -> String {
 }
 
 /// URL of the Launchpad API resource of a PPA (`~user/+archive/ubuntu/name`
-/// covers the default `ppa` archive and named archives alike)
-fn archive_url(user: &str, ppa: &str) -> String {
+/// covers the default `ppa` archive and named archives alike); shared by the
+/// put-side pre-flight checks and the apt keyring's fingerprint lookup
+pub(crate) fn archive_url(user: &str, ppa: &str) -> String {
     format!("{API_BASE}/~{user}/+archive/ubuntu/{ppa}")
 }