update NOT AUTHENTICATED warning

[Magnus Therning]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:16:29PM -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>On 29/10/05, golfer <golfbuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/29/05, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Greetings
>> >
>> > I have the little red "updates are ready" icon showing. When I go to
>> > install them the dialogue box reports that these updates "cant be
>> > authenticated".
>> > Is this correct?
>> > Seems a bit odd.
>> >
>> > The updates are:libgda2-3, libgdacommon and sudo
>>
>> I thought the unauthenticated warning just applied to things outside
>> ubuntu's standard (i.e. from universe or restricted or multiverse).  I
>> agree it's odd.
>
>your packages should be properly authenticated even if they come from
>universe, restricted or multiverse on Ubuntu mirrors that have a
>correct setup.  I have seen the error before, but it resolved itself
>soonish after (and also after an apt-get update)

Do you know why this is?

Personally I think this is a bug. update-manager should not announce
that any updates are available until it can validate them!

/M

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