Bug#595801: snapshot.debian.org: apt (by default) complains about expired Release files
Package: snapshot.debian.org
Severity: minor
After adding a snapshot.debian.org entry to my sources.list (as
described on the homepage), apt then complained during update about the
Valid-Until in the Release file:
E: Release file expired, ignoring
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100820T150149Z/dists/squeeze/Release
(invalid since 10d 4h 40min 14s)
Since the snapshot.debian.org source is obviously temporary, I just
worked around this with:
sudo aptitude -o 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false' update
(not sure if there's a better workaround, but this works)
I guess something along these lines should be mentioned in the paragraph
about adding apt sources?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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