Re: apt-get update success but with errors
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:19:29PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:53:42 -0800
> > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote:
> > > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output:
> > > >
> > > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s
> > > > (11.3kB/s) Reading package lists... Done
> > > > W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Release: The
> > > > following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is
> > > > not available: NO_PUBKEY A70DAF536070D3A1 W: You may want to run
> > > > apt-get update to correct these problems
> > >
> > > have you installed debian-archive-keyring?
> >
> > Funny but I get the exact same error everytime I run aptitude
> > update - but the second time I run it I get no error. And yes
> > debian-archive-keyring is on my machine. Weird.
>
> http.us.debian.org is a rotation of several mirrors. If one mirror gets
> out of sync you can see this kind of behavior.
Is there any programmatic way to determine this 'out-of-sync'ness? And
could said functionality be added to apt/aptitude?
> I don't really recommend
> using http.us.debian.org because of this problem, it's better to choose
> a single well-connected mirror.
How would the average users know this? I dont recall reading this.
>
> Additionally, it seems that you do not have key 6070D3A1 available on
> your system, probably because you do not have a current version of
> debian-archive-keyring installed. If you had this key then 'apt-key list'
> would list it:
>
> pub 1024D/6070D3A1 2006-11-20 [expires: 2009-07-01]
> uid Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (4.0/etch) <ftpmaster@debian.org>
>
It seems the ' W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these
problems' should be amended or replaced with one that mentions about
getting (a more up-to-date) d-a-keyring?
Thanks for monitoring these 'users' channels!
cheers,
K
- --
| .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: |
| : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/|
| `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and |
| `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 |
| my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFF7NAwv8UcC1qRZVMRAsKLAJ9e2710Zhm0OISmApAJ52K8dQPU6gCdFhNG
ueIuBqRVQivbjuS1tBPG3ZY=
=OpD1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: