On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 22:16 +0000, gavin duley wrote: > On 17 Jan 2009, at 22:37, Chris Andrew wrote: > > > Hi, all. > > > > I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch on my SS20. Sadly, > > I am getting a gpg error when apt and other apt utilities try to > > configure. Does anyone know how I can overcome this? > > I'm not a Debian developer, but: I've had a similar problem with my > Sun Ultra 5. Oddly, it seems to be specific to certain mirrors. > Changing to using another mirror often seems to fix the problem. > > It could be just that changing the mirror and doing apt-get update > gets rid of problems with some local cached files? I'm not sure -- as > I said, I'm not a Debian developer and only have a hazy idea of how > Debian archives work.
IIRC this is because some of the repository signing keys have expired. If you check back throught the archives you will find a load of posts about this from when it first became a problem. The answer is to manually install the package with the new GPG keys (having first verified, through other means, that they are correct, etc. etc.). As to why this isn't a problem with some mirrors - I guess it depends on if the mirror is signed or not. Not signed, not a problem. Which are signed, of the top of my head I don't know, I guess it may have something to do with how they where created (i.e. if they are Debian mirrors or 3rd party mirrors). HTH Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org