On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 11:17:16PM -0500, Joseph Ciurej wrote: > I recently tried updating my repos for the first time in a few months > and I ran into some difficulties. In particular, running `sudo apt > update` caused the following errors: > > E: The repository 'http://repo.mobian-project.org mobian Release' no > longer has a release file. > N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is > therefore disabled by default. > N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user > configuration details. Note that apt isn't complaining about an expired key, so you followed a red herring (for now). What apt is saying here is that the file `http://repo.mobian-project.org/dists/mobian/Release` doesn't exist while it previously did (well, likely `InRelease`, but due to fallbacks and… details, so lets pretend I didn't open this bracket). Turns out, the entire `mobian` directory doesn't exist anymore, but apt doesn't know that (many repos have directory listing disabled and even if they hadn't, those aren't made to be parsed by machines). Seems intended, see the Notes section at the end of https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2021/08/11/bullseye-release/ > ``` > # apt-key add mobian.gpg > # touch /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mobian.gpg > # apt-key add --keyring=/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mobian.gpg mobian.gpg > ``` Please don't. Anything involving `apt-key` is likely wrong and might not even run successfully as it requires the entire gnupg suite to work. There is a reason it is deprecated. The `apt-key` command might not even exist in a short while. In your case you could store the `mobian.gpg` file directly in `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/` for example. Disclaimer: I don't really have an idea about Mobian and/or if this is really a valid contact point for that team. It seems I am subscribed to this list due to my GTA02 Freerunner long before Mobian even existed, but that has long since gone the way of the dodo and so I don't even own anything resembling a mobile device… that is to say: take my comments with a truckload of salt. I am an APT developer though, so at least my comments on apt and apt-key are ex cathedra. 😉️ Best regards David Kalnischkies
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