On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:38:45 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote: > On my etch box, this package was not installed. So I installed it (and > most all, if not all, of Gnome was removed as part of the process > (?!!)). Now I have this version: > > Sun Feb 15 11:35:06 > ------------- > wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude show debian-archive-keyring
(no need for root privileges for aptitude show) > Unable to find an archive "stable" for the package "debian-archive-keyring" > Package: debian-archive-keyring > State: installed > Automatically installed: no > Version: 2007.07.31~etch1 > Priority: important > Section: misc > Maintainer: Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org> > Uncompressed Size: 57.3k > Depends: gnupg (>= 1.0.6-4) > Description: GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive > The Debian project digitally signs its Release files. This package > contains the archive keys used for that. > > Tags: admin::file-distribution, role::data, security::authentication, > suite::debian > > > And if I enable Lenny in my sources.list and do another update, I still > have the same problem. > > So it seems to me that there's no ("normal, everyday-user") way to > validate that the Lenny packages are valid without first installing a > Lenny package which you can't be sure is valid. > > Am I missing something? The package is there in stable, testing and unstable as far as I can see. Perhaps the mirror you are using has been slow to update. b...@trantor:~$ apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring: Installed: 2009.01.31 Candidate: 2009.01.31 Version table: *** 2009.01.31 0 990 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages 500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org