untrusted packages in softupdate

[ejonesca at yahoo.com]

> > Does  FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=1  work in
> softupdates?
> 
> Not sure - did you try? :)


Yeah, I tried and I didn't get it to work.

> There's an apt config option for this.
> You could make sure in a hook that is is set before the apt
> update takes
> place:
> 
> # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
> APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";
> 

That works great. Thanks.



--- On Mon, 5/11/09, Henning Sprang <henning at sprang.de> wrote:

> From: Henning Sprang <henning at sprang.de>
> Subject: Re: untrusted packages in softupdate
> To: "ejonesca at yahoo.com" <ejonesca at yahoo.com>
> Cc: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 2:51 PM
> ejonesca at yahoo.com
> wrote:
> 
> > And if not, is there an equivalent flag that does
> work?
> 
> There's an apt config option for this.
> You could make sure in a hook that is is set before the apt
> update takes
> place:
> 
> # cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
> APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";
> 
> 
> Henning
>