Re: Error trying to update powerpc64 Jessie machine.

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Hi Cyril,

Thanks for the clarification.

I am subscribed to the debian-announce list, and I read the message you mention when it first came out.  It doesn’t (at least to my eyes, I may be missing something) say anything specific about security.debian.org.

What do you suggest I do?  Should I just comment out the security.debian.org line in my sources.list?

Thanks,
Rick

On Jun 28, 2018, at 5:22 AM, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Rick,
> 
> This has little to do with the installer team (debian-boot@), and it
> isn't (really) a powerpc-specific issue either.
> 
> Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> (2018-06-28):
>> For the last couple of days, my PowerPC64 machine, running Debian
>> Jessie, has been getting this error message when I try to do “apt
>> update”:
> 
>>> W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/jessie/updates/InRelease  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-powerpc/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
>>> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
>> 
>> 
>> My sources.list file looks like this:
>> […]
>> Does anybody know why?  It was working fine until a couple of days ago…
> 
> Sure, jessie just received its last point release, and security support
> is gone; security.debian.org will keep jessie for a few architectures,
> but will be handled by the LTS team.
> 
> More details on the announce list (that you might want to follow):
>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2018/msg00002.html
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant