Re: Apt-secure and upgrading to bullseye
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 12:31:51PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Hooray, buster's released! Congrats to all!
>
> So I tried upgrading my machine to bullseye today, and
> aptitude/apt-get update don't like this, giving me errors such as:
>
> E: Repository 'http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing InRelease' changed its 'Codename' value from 'buster' to 'bullseye'
> N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.
>
> So I read apt-secure(8), which gives no indication of how to "accept
> this explicitly", and neither do any of the linked wiki pages.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> (And obviously something needs changing so that people aren't stung
> when bullseye is released.)
Ah, turns out it's a known bug with aptitude. The solution is to run
"apt update", which interactively asks what to do with these changes.
Best wishes,
Julian
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