Bug#340715: [Pbuilder-maint] Bug#340715: /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B90linda missing --force-yes option

[Junichi Uekawa]

Hi.

> > pbuilder mostly uses force-yes, since --allow-unauthenticated didn't
> > work in the earlier days.
> > 
> > If --allow-unauthenticated now works reliably (with even the current
> > testing version, and other possibly affected distributions, ubuntu was
> > released with apt 0.6, wasn't it?), it might be a good idea to switch.
> 
> The problem with --force-yes is that it also forces other things like
> answers to configuration questions, which is not always desirable.

However, pbuilder is mostly noninteractive already, so that
point is moot.
 
> An alternative would be to ask the debian-installer team how they enable
> secure APT when bootstrapping a new Etch installation. We could probably
> use their trick with pbuilder as well.

The difference is that pbuilder is more likely to use 
local apt archives as custom apt repository, and 
doesn't really need the overhead of authentication
in that case.



It would, however, be nice to be able to allow authentication if 
only authenticated archives are being used. That only requires 
gpg package to be installed.



regards,
	junichi
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