Re: squeeze-backports archive repo "Release file expired"
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Niall Chapman wrote:
> 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?
Thats by design. It is an archive and files are archived as they are. You
should not use those distributions anymore.
Alex
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