Re: squeeze-backports archive repo "Release file expired"

[Niall Chapman <Niall.Chapman@guest-tek.com>]

Hi Bruno,

You are a gentleman and a genius! =)
I had to tweak the syntax a bit before it would work - I ended up with
this:

Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false";

But it did indeed then do the job - I can now "apt-get update" that repo
and it looks like I can install packages from it using apt-get too =)

Many thanks for taking the time to give that suggestion - it worked a
treat =)

Cheers, Niall.


On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 12:28 +0200, bruno zanetti wrote:
> Hi Niall
> I don't know if it's relevant for squeeze-backports but adding
> something like Acquire::Check-Valid-Until = false;
> to /etc/apt/apt.conf might let you go ahead. 
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> BZ
> 
> 
> 2016-09-20 17:45 GMT+02:00 Niall Chapman
> <Niall.Chapman@guest-tek.com>:
>         Hi,
>         
>         I've been trying to set up the "squeeze-backports" repo on an
>         old server
>         that I can't do a dist-upgrade on, but am hitting the
>         following problem
>         when I try to "apt-get update":
>         
>         E: Release file expired, ignoring
>         http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports/dists/squeeze-backports/Release (invalid since 188d 18h 15min 13s)
>         
>         I notice that the Release file has a "valid until" field in it
>         which
>         corresponds to the "188d":
>         
>         "Valid-Until: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:20:23 UTC",
>         
>         ...but I also notice that there is no such field in the
>         "etch-backports"
>         repo for example, and I can run "apt-get update" using that
>         repo with no
>         error generated.
>         
>         It seems to me that it would be strange to have the all the
>         files hosted
>         in a repo on archive.debian.org but not be able to pull them
>         using
>         apt-get, especially seeing as the etch-backports repo seems to
>         work
>         fine, so I can only assume this is unintended behaviour.
>         
>         I've tried a few mirrors, and they all seem to be the same. It
>         seems to
>         me that there is a simple solution to this - remove the "valid
>         until"
>         field from the Release file, but I'm not sure exactly where or
>         how to
>         request this, so I hope this is the correct place to start.
>         Can anyone
>         help?
>         
>         Thanks, Niall.
> 
>