+++ Neil Williams [2010-09-28 08:43 +0100]: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:00:15 +0100 > Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > > > > 3: force-yes - NO. Use the actual no-auth support in apt, not the > > > --force-yes sledgehammer. (See the multistrap code for code to turn > > > off SecureApt.) This is a complete deal breaker - I will not upload code > > > using --force-yes merely to disable SecureApt. > > > > I had to do it that way because apt >=0.8 didn't work with no-auth. It > > still doesn't, although the failure has changed from the original: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/625042 > > to > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/646499 > > (That such a disruptive change was made this close to a release > infuriates me. It's plain dumb.)
Well, it also incredibly useful for us. new-apt has all the multiple architecture machinery in it so suddenly all the work that apt-cross used to have to do is done for us. All you need to do to look at differnt-arch packaging info is ensure an arch is mentioned in the apt.sources somewhere and then use -o APT:Architecture=<arch> in any apt commands you might issue. Having that available in the next release is worth quite a lot of pain IMHO. xdeb is already using this functionality for example and instead of having to re-implement all the package-downloading of apt-cross it was a one-line change to add -o APT:Architecture=<arch> in the right place. > > Until we work out (or someone tells us) how to do authenticated > > downloads into a chroot we have to use --force-yes or neither > > multistrap nor pdebuild-cross actually work at all. I realise this is > > pretty shoddy but it seemed a lot better than nothing. > > Shoddy doesn't even start to cover it. Is aptitude any better behaved? Don't know. I'm about to mail the deity list to find out what's going on. > > I've got rid of that hook in latest checkin as it just installs > > apt-cross and pile of pabout 15 perl packages in _eery single_ build, > > Good. If xapt is usable as the default, drop apt-cross entirely. Done in ubuntu and wook-shed. > > > There is - use the normal apt support for disabling SecureApt, not > > > --force*. -o Apt::Get::AllowUnauthenticated=true > > > > I would if it worked. > > That is really, really poor behaviour by apt. I'm very disappointed > that this has been broken so badly so close to a release. Well, so far as I can see it is now doing the right thing. I reckon it was only working by sheer chance before anyway. So whilst it's very tiresome we do need to do it properly, and actually I think there's still time. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-embedded-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100928144714.gq32...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
