On Sun 02 Jun 2019 at 18:28:24 +0100, Brian wrote: > A resumé of parts of the first few messages in this thread might focus > minds. It started with > > > I edited sources.list to read > > deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > It was pointed out by Dan Ritter (correctly) that > > > The problem is that the .iso is not a mounted filesystem. > > There is another mistake in the line which was regrettably perpetuated > by Dan when he gave the revised line > > > deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > On the OP saying > > > I now get a different error message: > > The repository 'file:/home/richard/dvdmount stretch Release' is not > signed. > > the advice was > > > Try [trusted=yes] and/or [allow-insecure=yes] > > Hmm, an example line might have prevented the slide into apt mayhem. > > At this point my guess would be that the OP substituted one malformed > line for another malformed line and sank deeper into the morass. A > rescue could be effected by using sources.lis(5) but there is, as yet, > no sign that its advice has been followed or tried.
I am getting bored with soliloquy and waiting for self-education to bear fruit. The starting point is > deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib trusted=yes As the sources.list manual indicates, this should be deb [trusted=yes] file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib and will get the error message > Release file for file:///home/richard/dvdmount/Release is expired (invalid > since...). As sources.list(5) relates: > A repository creator can declare a time until which the data > provided in the repository should be considered valid, and if > this time is reached, but no new data is provided, the data is > considered expired and an error is raised. We now update the line to deb [trusted=yes check-valid-until=no] file:///home/richard/dvdmount stretch main contrib and there we have it. Success. -- Brian.
