handling of untrusted sources is suboptimal

[Sebastien Bacher]

Binary package hint: software-center

Yesterday apt decided that universe was untrusted for some reason, trying to install something in software-center in a such case lead to have a synaptic dialog with a textview widget listing "untrusted binaries that need to be installed" and an "ok" button.
Clicking on "ok" send the user back to software-center interface with a failed installation and no explanation about the issue.

Could software-center trigger a package index update in such cases (in the current case the issue was solved with an apt-get update) or inform the user in a nice way about the issue?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

15:20 <mvo> cjwatson: 540790> I want to have a look if it can be improved without new strings, but it may have to be defered

[Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga)]

I implemented the following behavior:
 - if an apt transaction failed because of unauthenticated source
 - and this transaction failed for the first time (so that we don't loop)
 -> update the cache (asynchronously) remember the operation
 -> retry the transaction once apt cache is up-to-date

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

16:18 <cjwatson> bug 540790?
16:18 <mvo> -updates

[HX_unbanned (linards-liepins)]

Any chance to see this update in Repo?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

it seems borftsepiraat changed the status by mistake. reseting

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

Hi! Thanks for your bug report. As there are many duplicate bug reports regarding this issue, we will continue to track this issue over at the master bug report - bug 705988. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!