Hi Dennis, On Wed, 2025-09-03 at 16:43 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > The trick is to tell apt to just ignore the GPG authentication > issues entirely. During the install process there will be a failure > on a package and then just drop into a shell : > > > cd /target/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ > > Use the horrific nano editor and create a file "99unsecure" : > > # cat /target/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99unsecure > Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories true; > Acquire::AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories true; > APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated true; > > > Then return to the installer and everything will go smoothly.
Thanks for the heads-up, useful to know. > When the machine reboots it is not unreasonable to see the boot fail. > This is due to the boot-device firmware variable being wrong. No big > deal. Just do the boot from the list of nvalias output for your disk. > > NOTE : do a full power off and cool down before booting OK, thanks. > Now that the box runs an old old Debian version is there a path to > upgrade using some apt sources stuff ? Not really. Wheezy is ancient and trying to upgrade that to unstable will just horribly fail, in particular since you also will have to switch architectures in between. > The objective is to get to a reasonable state wherein I can > fetch build-essential stuff and apply the kernel patches. You don't need to apply any patches, just install the test kernel: https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/sparc64/linux-image-6.12.3-sparc64-smp_6.12.3-1+sparc64_sparc64.deb If you want to upgrade the machine to unstable, I would just recommend using debootstrap to create a sparc64 chroot on that machine on a second disk and then extract the kernel package above and install the kernel, then boot it with the correct root filesystem. # debootstrap --no-check-gpg --arch=sparc64 unstable sparc64-chroot \ --include=debian-ports-archive-keyring \ http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
