Bug#241809: marked as done (apt-get -y is broken by package authentication)
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From: Andrew McMillan <debian-bugs-200404@mcmillan.net.nz>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: apt-get -y is broken by package authentication
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Package: apt
Version: 0.6.21
Severity: wishlist
This relates only to the version of apt, currently in experimental,
which does package authentication.
Since the "-y" option to Apt forces a "Yes" answer to each question
it is useless where packages cannot be authenticated, and I have to
not use it. Among other things this breaks cron-apt, which expects
to do something like:
apt-get -fyd dist-upgrade
and which is intended to run to completion without interaction.
While I realise that ultimately it will be important to enable package
authentication in all cases, at present this is necessarily harder to
allow.
The questions from apt-get are currently:
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
After unpacking 2801kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
fileutils ethereal-common
Abort? [Y/n]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
perhaps it would be better if those were something like:
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
After unpacking 2801kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
fileutils ethereal-common
Do you still want to continue? [y/N]
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
so that "--yes" and friends still allow unattended operation.
Thanks,
Andrew McMillan
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# Debian Unstable...
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
# Debian Unstable Source...
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main
# MPlayer and others
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main
# Experimental, for the truly bleeding edge...
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
# DRI trunk for latest DRI drivers
deb http://dri.freedesktop.org/~daenzer/debian/dri-trunk-sid/ ./
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-rc3-mm1
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4-0pre2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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Subject: Re: Bug#241809: apt-get -y is broken by package authentication
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On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 04:39:18PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.21
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> This relates only to the version of apt, currently in experimental,
> which does package authentication.
>
> Since the "-y" option to Apt forces a "Yes" answer to each question
> it is useless where packages cannot be authenticated, and I have to
> not use it. Among other things this breaks cron-apt, which expects
> to do something like:
It is intentional that --yes/-y does not allow unauthenticated packages;
this is considered a dangerous, unexpected action which should not happen
automatically.
--force-yes will override this (as well as a number of other situations),
and --allow-unauthenticated will override only this particular check.
--
- mdz
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