peter green wrote: > imo making this availible through preseeding while it will be helpfull > for some is not going to help most people who run into this issue. > > the real fix imo would be to make apt/aptitude have an option to use > debconf for this prompt. Failing that i belive the soloution would be > to check for the key problem before installing anything (there must be > a way to check for it programatically) and pop up a warning if an > issue was discovered (and based on the users response add the > configuration setting). The difficulty is that key checking happens in many places (net-retriever, debootstrap, aptitude), and can fail in any of these stages, since any can be the first stage that needs to access the network mirror. And of course debootstrap and aptitude don't have a way to communicate authentication failures back to their caller. The patch does at least lay the groundwork for such a dialog, and it would be easy later to turn it into a dialog at the net-retreiver stage. -- see shy jo
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