Bug#332883: aptitude: please give option to allow installation of untrusted packages
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.15.9-6 Severity: wishlist Hi, in some cases, aptitude complains about untrusted packages even if APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true; is set in apt.conf.d/90allow-unauthenticated. This happens, for example, on systems that are testing the diff package patch from Michael Vogt and Andreas Barth. There should be an option to have aptitude accept these packages. Additionally, aptitude should be more verbose in _what_ it doesn't like with the packages or their signatures. Simply saying untrusted versions will be installed isn't much help. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-rc1-scyw00225 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.41 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.5-6GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-1.2-5c2 1.2.5-5type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++64.0.2-2The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.2.15.9-6 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#332883: aptitude: please give option to allow installation of untrusted packages
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: in some cases, aptitude complains about untrusted packages even if APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true; is set in apt.conf.d/90allow-unauthenticated. This happens, for example, on systems that are testing the diff package patch from Michael Vogt and Andreas Barth. There should be an option to have aptitude accept these packages. Additionally, aptitude should be more verbose in _what_ it doesn't like with the packages or their signatures. Simply saying untrusted versions will be installed isn't much help. The experimental version has a configuration option to do this (at the command-line, which is where I imagine the problem arises). However, it appear that it was buggy in 0.3.4 and just printed a message claiming it would bypass the prompt (without doing so). It should be fixed now. Daniel signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#332883: aptitude: please give option to allow installation of untrusted packages
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Additionally, aptitude should be more verbose in _what_ it doesn't like with the packages or their signatures. Simply saying untrusted versions will be installed isn't much help. What does apt-get do about this part? Daniel signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#332883: aptitude: please give option to allow installation of untrusted packages
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:50:35AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Additionally, aptitude should be more verbose in _what_ it doesn't like with the packages or their signatures. Simply saying untrusted versions will be installed isn't much help. What does apt-get do about this part? I suspect that apt-get is equally bad, but cannot verify this since the host in question is testing packagediffs, and thus has a patched aptitude for URL rewriting, but original apt-get. So I reckon that apt-get doesn't currently work on that host. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things.Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#332883: aptitude: please give option to allow installation of untrusted packages
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 08:52:29PM +0200, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:50:35AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Additionally, aptitude should be more verbose in _what_ it doesn't like with the packages or their signatures. Simply saying untrusted versions will be installed isn't much help. What does apt-get do about this part? I suspect that apt-get is equally bad, but cannot verify this since the host in question is testing packagediffs, and thus has a patched aptitude for URL rewriting, but original apt-get. So I reckon that apt-get doesn't currently work on that host. The reason I asked is that by the time that aptitude (or apt-get) gets around to installing packages, all that's left of the trust check is a flag saying that the package source isn't trusted. So I thought maybe apt-get knew something I didn't :-). Daniel signature.asc Description: Digital signature
