severity 316606 normal thanks Hello
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 09:28:55PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 04:21:52PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > I actually think this is a bug in aptitude as it do not honor the > > environment variables that is set to make it work in non-interactive > > mode. > > Aptitude is not very well geared to be used from scripts, see also the > missing --quiet option which forces us to jump through hoops in > cron-apt. > > > Or do you know such an environment variable for aptitude? > > Aptitude can be configured to allow unauthenticated packages to be > installed via 'APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";' in > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. This can probably be set from the command line as > well. However, older apts barf when confronted with that option :-( > > Since there are too many packages without signatures around, I have > switched that feature off generally on all my sid machines. Ok. Well then I can not solve this issue unfortunately as no support exist in aptitude. On the other hand I thought of an option to force aptitude to be non-interactive (answer itself non-interactively) but as far as I can see no such option exist. Maybe I should reassign this bug to aptitude instead. Regards, // Ola > 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 > -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://www.opal.dhs.org Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]