Re: Archived Debian releases without security site: lists.debian.org
No, I withdraw my question. I forgot to acknowledge and thank
everyone, including Mr. Noah Meyerhans, who coolly gave me a really
deep reply which I could not comprehend at that time. Why would he
need to check whether the key still worked? It was my job to see if it
worked.
I tried with the clue: The keys are available in the
debian-archive-keyring package... and found that they worked. I also
understood Knoppix's method of writing sources.list and amended it to
be fixed in time for an old distro.
Thank, once again to all of you.
Regards,
Rajib
On 04/05/2015, bkpsusmitaa <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Please, could you check if this Public key still works?
> Knoppix is a blend of three, stable, experimental and unstable.
> In my case, it is Lenny, Squeeze and Wheezy.
> Tell me, if someone has a really old computer that works, and wants to
> continue with archived old Debian flavours, how can they use it
> without the link to security keys in sources.list?
> Regards
>
> On 03/05/2015, Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 10:06:20PM +0530, bkpsusmitaa wrote:
>>> I have added the lines. The issue is regarding non-availability of
>>> security keys. Yes, it is about an old laptop that ran superbly in
>>> lenny, but somewhat slower in squeeze,
>>
>> The keys are available in the debian-archive-keyring package. The one
>> referenced by lenny's package metadata is
>> debian-archive-keyring_2010.08.28~lenny1_all.deb and can be retrieved
>> from
>> http://archive.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-archive-keyring/
>>
>> Specifically, the lenny release file is signed with key 473041FA. You
>> can also retrieve this key from a keyserver network with commands like:
>>
>> gpg --recv-keys 473041FA
>> gpg --export -a 473041FA | sudo apt-key add -
>>
>>
>
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