Comment 0 for bug 959131
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| Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote Doens't detect unauthenticated packages if the transaction hasn't been simulated before | #0 |
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Aptdaemon allows to install unauthenticated packages using software-center or update-manager.
Background: Aptdaemon only checks for unauthenticated packages during the simulation of a transaction. Normally aptdaemon should simulate every transaction before it is queued, even if the client hasn't explicitly called the Simulate method of the transaction before (e.g. update-manager and software-center don't simulate the transactions). But there is an error in aptdaemon.
Two steps are required to resolve this issue:
(1) Perform a re-check of unauthenticated packages directly before applying the changes
(2) Fix the automatic simulation of transactions [But this part could be skipped for a security fix release]
Thanks a lot to Michael Vogt for detecing and providing a fix for this issue.