On 2021-08-14 7:45 p.m., The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-08-14 at 19:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:26:44PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> The warnings I'd be OK with; I might even be OK with the errors, >>> except for the fact that they point not to anything with useful >>> information but to a place which doesn't actually tell you anything >>> helpful. >> >> Yeah, the DD who replied with "If you run it interactive, you get >> asked directly" clearly had no idea.... > > If I remember that exchange correctly, that seems to have been a case of > confusion about which front-end was being used. If you run 'apt' > interactively rather than for scripting purposes, I understand that you > *do* get asked directly; if you run 'apt-get', however, you don't. > Using *apt update* instead of *apt-get update* solved my problem (without changing my sources.list files).
>> In any case, it sounds like your machines have some unique setup >> that's triggering the symptoms in cases where other people won't >> experience them. For now, I'm going to assume that the problem is >> unique to you, unless/until someone else reports it. > > I'd be glad of that, but given the number of other people reporting the > problem in that collection of bug reports, don't expect it to be the > case; that was part of what led me to report the solution here in the > form of a PSA, rather than bringing it up in some other way or just not > mentioning it at all. > >> Also, the fact that people apparently can't manage to find the >> NewInBuster page that describes the symptom and its workaround (not >> even with Google?) is sad. > > I didn't even look this time, since I'd had to look so hard last time > and found nothing anyway. I just ran 'reportbug apt', filtered the list > of bugs for mention of 'secure', and looked at the first bug report - > out of, IIRC, three or four - whose title seemed relevant. > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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