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
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