On 19 Jan 2009, at 23:50, Martin wrote:

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

I couldn't remember the error message off-hand, as I haven't seen it in the past month or so, but that is the problem that I had. I'm guessing it's likely this would be the same problem that Chris was having, but this is just a guess...

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

Okay. I'll look into that, if I end up with the same problems again.

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).


I often had problems with the Australian mirror. Switching to the UK or French mirror seemed to solve the problem. I don't know what mirrors are run by whom, though.

gavin,

--
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
                -- G.K. Chesterton

Gavin Duley
<g...@snoopy.apana.org.au>
WWW: http://gpd.sdf-eu.org/


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