severity 335112 important thanks On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 02:16:39AM +0200, David Madore wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.6.41 > Severity: serious > 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. This does not fit the description of a severity: serious bug. The obvious workaround here would be to not list apt sources in your configuration that you don't actually want apt to use... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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