Bug#853739: apt: cannot download unauthenticated packages but can install -d them
Package: apt
Version: 1.4~beta4
Severity: normal
tglase@tglase:~ $ cd /tmp/
tglase@tglase:/tmp $ apt-get download elasticsearch
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
elasticsearch
E: Some packages could not be authenticated
100|tglase@tglase:/tmp $ apt-get download -y elasticsearch
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
elasticsearch
E: Some packages could not be authenticated
100|tglase@tglase:/tmp $ apt-get download -y --force-yes elasticsearch
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
elasticsearch
E: Some packages could not be authenticated
100|tglase@tglase:/tmp $ sudo apt-get install -d elasticsearch
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
elasticsearch
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
Need to get 27.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 30.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
elasticsearch
Install these packages without verification? [y/N] y
Get:1 https://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/2.x/debian stable/main amd64 elasticsearch all 2.4.4 [27.2 MB]
Fetched 27.2 MB in 58s (466 kB/s)
Download complete and in download only mode
tglase@tglase:/tmp $ sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/elasticsearch_2.4.4_all.deb .
Yes, I know it’s unauthenticated, but I can’t even get around
it with the bad --force-yes switch (why?). I just want to peek
at the .deb contents, and the idiots who run the repo disabled
browsing it with a webbrowser…
-- Package-specific info:
-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/dash-mksh.pref present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers unreleased
APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3
ii gpgv 2.1.18-3
ii init-system-helpers 1.47
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4~beta4
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-5
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-5
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii gnupg 2.1.18-3
ii gnupg1 1.4.21-2
ii gnupg2 2.1.18-3
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
pn aptitude | synaptic | wajig <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.21
ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1
pn python-apt <none>
-- no debconf information
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