Bug#241809: - no documentation for --allow-unauthenticated option
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:48:22PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Looks like what I was missing was some sort of documentation of the
> --allow-unauthenticated option then - if I had found that in the man
> page I would have had no reason to file the bug :-)
It must have been lost during the SGML->XML transition. It used to be
there.
RCS file: /cvs/deity/apt/doc/Attic/apt-get.8.sgml,v
revision 1.22.2.1
date: 2003/12/31 16:28:35; author: mdz; state: Exp; lines: +10 -0
* Add a config option and corresponding command line option
(--allow-unauthenticated) to apt-get, to make buildd operators happy
(Closes: #225648)
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- mdz
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