Re: ...the public key is not available

[Rich Johnson <rjohnson@dogstar-interactive.com>]

On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Michael Lightfoot wrote:

> On Saturday 01 April 2006 10:06, Rich Johnson wrote:
> > Hi folks--
> >
> > When I run apt-get update, I get
> >
> >       W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org testing Release: The
> > following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
> > not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F
> >      W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
> You need the package debian-archive-keyring.  This annoyed me for  
> about a
> month before I got around to looking for the cause.  Apparently the
> requirement for the above appeared in late January (it is dated 18  
> January.)

That eliminated the error, Thanks!

But I'm still a bit puzzled because debian-archive-keyring is _not_  
installed on the machine that didn't report the errors.  AFAIK, both  
machines have the same apt-get policies, and all sources are  
debian.org machines.

One difference between the two machines is that the one which  
reported the error is an older installation.  It was first installed  
with potato/stable ~5 years ago and has been repeatedly dist- 
upgraded.  The machine without the error was first installed in Feb.  
with  sarge/stable.  Hmmm...

---rich