severity 317101 wishlist retitle 317101 Record the reasons for authentication failures for later use? thanks On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:43:14PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.28.6 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > when installing packages without having gpg present on the system, apt > complains that the packages being installed are untrusted. I > wrongfully attributed that to the fact that some _packages_ are still > unsigned, not being aware that apt's new feature only tests the > Release file's signature. > > This would have been much easier if apt would thruthfully say that the > package were unverified since no gpg binary was found. > > Please add a warning or re-word the "do you really want to install > untrusted packages" message to indicate that gpg might be missing.
apt-get update does print a helpful message in this case which suggests installing the gpg package. If you ignore that and then run an install operation, apt doesn't know the reason for the earlier failure. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
