aptitude authentication handling differs from apt-get ones

Bug #19739 reported by Michael Vogt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
aptitude (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

aptitude does refuse to trust a package if there is a single non-authenticated
source for the package

apt-get will trust a package if it can get it from at least one trusted sources.

apt-get is correct here because internally libapt will never fall back to a
unauthenticated source when it's downloading some authentiacted.

This difference in aptitude causes install failures in edubuntu (debugged that
with ogra) when base-config run a unsuccessfull apt-get update in stage2 (no
*.gpg files anymore in the lists directory) but authenticated packages are still
available on the cd.

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This is fixed in the latest breezy verison

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