not requesting update tickets when any long option (e.g --no-baseband) is passed on Windows

[DanTheMann15]

when the Custom Server URL feature was added, it has caused a glitch that prevents tsschecker from also requesting update tickets when you pass the long option --no-baseband, even if you don't use --server-url.

how i discovered this bug is when i saved iOS 15.0 beta 2 blobs for my test device and noticing that tsschecker wasn't also requesting update tickets, i typically save shsh blobs without the baseband ticket since bbtickets are currently useless for the purpose of downgrading.

• Workaround: if you prefer saving complete aptickets without baseband, use the short option -b instead of the long option --no-baseband

i am looking into this myself, but i need to make this known in-case anyone fixes it faster than i do. but i find it strange that only the long option is affected but not the short option.

[DanTheMann15]

Update: this bug affects all long options, if you try requesting tickets using any long option it'll not request an update ticket.

[Cryptiiiic]

@DanTheMann15 I don't see the issue you are talking about, it requests an update ticket fine with long options. I'm confused why you have this issue.

[DanTheMann15]

which platform are you testing your build on, it seems to be fine for you?

i can't test macOS since i don't have a mac, but i can test linux (Ubuntu) and sure enough it works perfectly on Ubuntu.

so it seems that Windows is affected. my build was compiled static using MSYS2 (x86_64-w64-mingw32). you can check out my latest build here on a Windows machine or VM: https://github.com/DanTheMann15/tsschecker/releases/tag/335-0

if you need a quickie script to dig deeper, you can use this script i s̶t̶o̶l̶e̶ borrowed from opa334 and modified: (remove the .txt part): tsschecker_build.sh.txt

Instructions:

Install MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org/ Install zsh (of course) pacman -S --needed zsh Switch over to MSYS2's MINGW64 console and run the script. ./build_tsschecker.sh static

It'll install the packages it needs (and ones it probably doesn't need) and start building tsschecker and it's dependencies.

you'll encounter an issue during compiling with "TSSCHECKER_VERSION_COUNT" and "TSSCHECKER_VERSION_SHA", when this happens to you just change it to 336-DEVELOPMENT or whatever you want (without the quotations) in tsschecker/main.c line 154.

i do not know why this happens.

compile parameters for tsschecker is: ./autogen.sh --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-static --disable-shared make CFLAGS=-DCURL_STATICLIB LDFLAGS=-all-static -Wl,--allow-multiple-definition

[DanTheMann15]

this is the error you will run into when attempting to compile: main.c:154:36: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘TSSCHECKER_VERSION_COUNT’ 154 | printf("tsschecker version: 0."TSSCHECKER_VERSION_COUNT"-"TSSCHECKER_VERSION_SHA"\n"); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | ) make[2]: *** [Makefile:651: tsschecker-main.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/Users/Daniel/Desktop/Source/tsschecker/tsschecker' make[1]: *** [Makefile:408: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/Users/Daniel/Desktop/Source/tsschecker' make: *** [Makefile:340: all] Error 2

i just workaround it by removing the quotations from TSSCHECKER_VERSION_COUNT and TSSCHECKER_VERSION_SHA

the same "not requesting an update ticket" issue with tsschecker is also present when built with Cygwin. so both Cygwin and MSYS2 are affected.

[1Conan]

Not even related to any changes that I did. This occurs even on upstream.

[DanTheMann15]

y̶o̶u̶ ̶m̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶w̶a̶n̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶o̶p̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶s̶u̶e̶, you closed this based on the TSSCHECKER_VERSION_COUNT/SHA issue which is bypassable.

the actual issue is tsschecker having problems saving update tickets along with the normal stuff when a long option is passed.

EDIT: just tested your build of tsschecker using the github ci, and the bug does not exist. damn... i'll read through the logs and learn from them. so as far as i can tell, this issue is solved.