Bob Cox wrote: > 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 > >
With Lenny in my sources.list: Sun Feb 15 12:57:12 ------------- wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring: Installed: 2007.07.31~etch1 Candidate: 2009.01.31 Version table: 2009.01.31 0 990 http://ftp.debian.org lenny/main Packages *** 2007.07.31~etch1 0 500 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status If I comment out Lenny: Sun Feb 15 12:57:14 ------------- wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list Password: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Beta i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070326-09:02]/ etch contrib main #deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main #deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main #deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main #deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib Sun Feb 15 12:57:55 ------------- wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude update Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B] Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch Release Ign http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages Fetched 2B in 0s (2B/s) Reading package lists... Done Sun Feb 15 12:57:59 ------------- wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring debian-archive-keyring: Installed: 2007.07.31~etch1 Candidate: 2007.07.31~etch1 Version table: *** 2007.07.31~etch1 0 500 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Sun Feb 15 12:58:04 ------------- wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude install debian-archive-keyring Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages have been kept back: tzdata 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Sun Feb 15 13:00:30 ------------- wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> apt-cache show debian-archive-keyring Package: debian-archive-keyring Priority: important Section: misc Installed-Size: 56 Maintainer: Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org> Architecture: all Version: 2007.07.31~etch1 Depends: gnupg (>= 1.0.6-4) Filename: pool/main/d/debian-archive-keyring/debian-archive-keyring_2007.07.31~etch1_all.deb Size: 9318 MD5sum: 46d0ba96a62b75573fe8c5fe59ab20b7 SHA1: f60d46e921a69108eaa97e4c12d4be83a5c79e0d SHA256: 2a7d7e9c9a5afc9b6026ba10ff9c78b0d57be5005f76f7d78b58827ed32ae725 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. Tag: admin::file-distribution, role::data, security::authentication, suite::debian -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org