Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 oct 14, 21:13:17, Stuart Longland wrote: > > The beef I have, is this not what happens if you do an `apt-get > download` or an `apt-get source`: in both those latter cases, it never > asks the question, it just flatly refuses to give you the sources. > > Now, merely obtaining the binary

Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-06 Thread Brian
On Mon 06 Oct 2014 at 21:13:17 +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 06/10/14 19:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 06 oct 14, 14:00:42, Stuart Longland wrote: > >> > > >> > Now for whatever reason, if I want to *install* those packages. No > >> > problem. It'll ask whether I wish to install the

Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Longland
On 06/10/14 19:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 06 oct 14, 14:00:42, Stuart Longland wrote: >> > >> > Now for whatever reason, if I want to *install* those packages. No >> > problem. It'll ask whether I wish to install them even though no one >> > can vouch (digitally) for them. >> > >> > How

Re: Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 oct 14, 14:00:42, Stuart Longland wrote: > > Now for whatever reason, if I want to *install* those packages. No > problem. It'll ask whether I wish to install them even though no one > can vouch (digitally) for them. > > However, it fails to ask the same question when I tell it to dow

Re: Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 02:00:42PM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > >> Even though I tell apt-get to force download of the package sources > >> (which, I might add, I can personally vouch for as I put them there), it > >> refuses to do so because the package repository is unsigned. > >> > >> Now I

Re: Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
>> Even though I tell apt-get to force download of the package sources >> (which, I might add, I can personally vouch for as I put them there), it >> refuses to do so because the package repository is unsigned. >> >> Now I *could* organise a gpg key to sign the repository with. I have >> administ

Re: Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:40:23AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: > Hi all, > > For some time now my workplace has had an APT repository for in-house > developed packages for software we either produce or support. > > This lives on an internal intranet server and is accessed over plain > HTTP. Th

Downloading sources from an unsigned intranet repository

2014-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
Hi all, For some time now my workplace has had an APT repository for in-house developed packages for software we either produce or support. This lives on an internal intranet server and is accessed over plain HTTP. This has worked well for some time now. Until today I notice: > stuartl@qube:~$