Bug#595801: snapshot.debian.org: apt (by default) complains about expired Release files
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010, Chris Butler wrote:
> 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?
Maybe. Can you provide a patch?
Ideally apt would support overriding that check on a per-source level.
Is there a bug for that already?
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