On Tue, 2025-09-23 at 03:57 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > Not sure what kind of host system you're doing this on > > wheezy.
Well, that information is necessary. > > > So tomorrow is another day. > > > > Try: > > > > # wget > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb > > # dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb > > > > Yep. Everything fails of course : > > nix# > nix# wget > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb > --2025-09-23 03:41:33-- > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-ports-archive-keyring/debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb > Resolving ftp.debian.org (ftp.debian.org)... 151.101.126.132, > 2a04:4e42:1e::644 > Connecting to ftp.debian.org (ftp.debian.org)|151.101.126.132|:80... > connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 36804 (36K) [application/vnd.debian.binary-package] > Saving to: `debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb' > > 100%[==============================================================================>] > > 36,804 --.-K/s in 0.01s > > 2025-09-23 03:41:33 (2.76 MB/s) - > `debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb' saved [36804/36804] > > nix# dpkg -i debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb > dpkg-deb: error: archive > 'debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb' contains not > understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up > dpkg: error processing debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb > (--install): > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > debian-ports-archive-keyring_2025.04.05_all.deb > nix# > > I have to go to a modern Debian system and extract the guts out of that > package and then manually extract the tar ball. It fails because the dpkg version in Wheezy is ancient and doesn't understand the compression format of deb packages from unstable. > > I am working on it ... ever so slowly. Just pass "--no-check-gpg" to debootstrap then to skip GPG verification. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
