Re: apt gpg problem dist-upgrade sarge etch on SS20
On 17 Jan 2009, at 22:37, Chris Andrew wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch on my SS20. Sadly, I am getting a gpg error when apt and other apt utilities try to configure. Does anyone know how I can overcome this? I'm not a Debian developer, but: I've had a similar problem with my Sun Ultra 5. Oddly, it seems to be specific to certain mirrors. Changing to using another mirror often seems to fix the problem. It could be just that changing the mirror and doing apt-get update gets rid of problems with some local cached files? I'm not sure -- as I said, I'm not a Debian developer and only have a hazy idea of how Debian archives work. gavin, -- Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. -- Terry Pratchett Gavin Duley g...@snoopy.apana.org.au WWW: http://gpd.sdf-eu.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Debian+KDE for SPARC
Am I doing something spectacularly dumb or is there a reason why debian-testing-sparc-kde-cd-1.iso installs Gnome on SPARC with no trace of KDE? Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24) such that it doesn't revert on upgrades? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: apt gpg problem dist-upgrade sarge etch on SS20
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 22:16 +, gavin duley wrote: On 17 Jan 2009, at 22:37, Chris Andrew wrote: Hi, all. I'm trying to do a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch on my SS20. Sadly, I am getting a gpg error when apt and other apt utilities try to configure. Does anyone know how I can overcome this? I'm not a Debian developer, but: I've had a similar problem with my Sun Ultra 5. Oddly, it seems to be specific to certain mirrors. Changing to using another mirror often seems to fix the problem. It could be just that changing the mirror and doing apt-get update gets rid of problems with some local cached files? I'm not sure -- as I said, I'm not a Debian developer and only have a hazy idea of how Debian archives work. IIRC this is because some of the repository signing keys have expired. If you check back throught the archives you will find a load of posts about this from when it first became a problem. The answer is to manually install the package with the new GPG keys (having first verified, through other means, that they are correct, etc. etc.). As to why this isn't a problem with some mirrors - I guess it depends on if the mirror is signed or not. Not signed, not a problem. Which are signed, of the top of my head I don't know, I guess it may have something to do with how they where created (i.e. if they are Debian mirrors or 3rd party mirrors). HTH Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Debian+KDE for SPARC
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Am I doing something spectacularly dumb or is there a reason why debian-testing-sparc-kde-cd-1.iso installs Gnome on SPARC with no trace of KDE? The cause is that the boot parameter 'desktop=kde' was not added at CD build time. Unfortunately debian-cd does not have support to add that extra parameter for all architectures, even though we do build the desktop CDs for them. You're the first person to complain though :-/ For sparc this support was actually added fairly recently and thus the parameter should be there. I've checked and it is added for all boot options, except for the default... I've now fixed this in SVN, so (if I've not made any mistakes) it should be correct for Lenny. It would be nice if you could test this using the next weekly build (normally next Monday). Cheers, FJP P.S. This question would have been better asked on the d-cd list. It's really just luck that I happen to be subscribed. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Debian+KDE for SPARC
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:24 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Also, if installing on a machine with cg6 is it possible to lock xorg.conf down to 8 bits (the hardware won't do the default 24) such that it doesn't revert on upgrades? Nothing should mess with xorg.conf on upgrades, so any modification you make will be respected. The DefaultDepth directive in the Screen section is probably what you want. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
