Bug#334656: refuses to install from Debian cds

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:53:38AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.41
> Severity: grave
> Tags: d-i

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
[..]
> As I understand it, there is basically no way we can build official
> Debian CDs that are signed with our archive signing key. There is also
> currently no way to turn off the signature checking that doesn't disable
> it for all apt sources, which wouldn't be an acceptible tradeoff.
> 
> The simplest fix would be to special case apt to not require CD sources
> to be authenticated. This seems ok to me, since the user has already
> *booted* the CD, at least when using it as install media.

I have a branch with a  "APT::Authentication::Trust-CDROM"
option. Turing it on would result in trusting any cdrom source.

Is that sufficient for your needs? 

Cheeers,
 Michael

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