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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-06-23 17:26:57 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-08-10 17:25:26 +0200
commit0741daeb7ab870b4dd62a93fa12a1cf6330f9a72 (patch)
tree1bd18df3d5ebf572de93fd6ca11fb3d7b316d075 /doc/apt-get.8.xml
parent5ad0096a4e19e191b59634e8a8817995ec4045ad (diff)
add sources.list Check-Valid-Until and Valid-Until-{Max,Min} options
These options could be set via configuration before, but the connection to the actual sources is so strong that they should really be set in the sources.list instead – especially as this can be done a lot more specific rather than e.g. disabling Valid-Until for all sources at once. Valid-Until-* names are chosen instead of the Min/Max-ValidTime as this seems like a better name and their use in the wild is probably low enough that this isn't going to confuse anyone if we have to names for the same thing in different areas. In the longrun, the config options should be removed, but for now documentation hinting at the new options is good enough as these are the kind of options you set once across many systems with different apt versions, so the new way should work everywhere first before we deprecate the old way.
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diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml
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@@ -531,9 +531,13 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--allow-unauthenticated</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Ignore if packages can't be authenticated and don't prompt about it.
- This is useful for tools like pbuilder.
- Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Ignore if packages can't be authenticated and don't prompt
+ about it. This can be useful while working with local repositories,
+ but is a huge security risk if data authenticity isn't ensured in
+ another way by the user itself. The usage of the
+ <option>Trusted</option> option for &sources-list; entries should
+ usually be preferred over this global override. Configuration Item:
+ <literal>APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--no-allow-insecure-repositories</option></term>