Re: apt broken in latest update
On 2014-09-23 21:39 +0200, Paul Zimmerman wrote:
> The recent security fixes to apt have broken its behavior with the DVD
> install. It doesn't seem possible to have the DVD lines in
> sources.list along with the repository entries anymore, which means
> you are now stuck downloading anything and everything you want to
> install regardless of whether it is on the DVDs you bought. The reason
> people buy the DVDs is to AVOID downloading as much as possible. Is
> this change deliberate? I hope not. Please fix apt to allow the DVD
> entries again. In fact, it would be really helpful to be able to setup
> the ISO images as a local repository. But when I tried to do that it
> kept complaining about unsigned files -- from the original DVDs? How
> could those not pass the hash test? This is doubly strange now that
> the recent security fixes have come down and it says
> apt was NOT validating downloads properly.
This problem seems to have been fixed in the latest security update for
apt, see
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00219.html.
Cheers,
Sven
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