Package: apt Version: 0.8.11.5 Severity: normal Whenever I set the option APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated to true for apt-get, it complains that "packages cannot be authenticated", even if they can and signatures and checksums are OK. With the option set to false, there is no warning:
# apt-get install base-passwd --reinstall --download-only -o APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 41,9 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! base-passwd Authentication warning overridden. Get:1 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid/main base-passwd amd64 3.5.22 [41,9 kB] Fetched 41,9 kB in 0s (461 kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode # apt-get install base-passwd --reinstall --download-only -o APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=false Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 41,9 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ sid/main base-passwd amd64 3.5.22 [41,9 kB] Fetched 41,9 kB in 0s (517 kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (60, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.5.2-4 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.5.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: pn apt-doc <none> (no description available) ii aptitude 0.6.3-3.2 terminal-based package manager (te ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.100.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.75 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
