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  1. Bug #24408
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Comment 11 for bug 24408

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In , Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: Bug#335112: apt-get --allow-unauthenticated still prefers authenticated packages on network to unauthenticated on localhost

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 02:16:39AM +0200, David Madore wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.41
> Severity: serious

Thanks for your bugreport.

> The --allow-unauthenticated option does not revert to the exact
> pre-0.6.27 behavior: even when this flag is passed on the command
> line, apt still favors an authenticated package on the network to an
> unauthenticated package on the local host (say with a file:/// URL in
> the sources.list).
>
> No combination of switches seems to be sufficient to _completely_
> remove any kind of authentication-related feature (and revert to the
> pre-0.6.27 behavior in all respects).
>
> This severely breaks very-low-bandwidth systems where it is assumed
> that the local package set will be favored over the networked ones.

Could you please test if the attached patch fixes the problem?

Cheers,
 Michael

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