Re: Lenny?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Bob Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:38:45 -0600, Kent West (westk@acu.edu) wrote: 
>
>   
>> On my etch box, this package was not installed. So I installed it (and
>> most all, if not all, of Gnome was removed as part of the process
>> (?!!)). Now I have this version:
>>
>> Sun Feb 15     11:35:06
>> -------------
>> westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude show debian-archive-keyring
>>     
>
> (no need for root privileges for aptitude show)
>
>   
>> Unable to find an archive "stable" for the package "debian-archive-keyring"
>> Package: debian-archive-keyring
>> State: installed
>> Automatically installed: no
>> Version: 2007.07.31~etch1
>> Priority: important
>> Section: misc
>> Maintainer: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
>> Uncompressed Size: 57.3k
>> Depends: gnupg (>= 1.0.6-4)
>> Description: GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive
>>  The Debian project digitally signs its Release files. This package
>> contains the archive keys used for that.
>>
>> Tags: admin::file-distribution, role::data, security::authentication,
>> suite::debian
>>
>>
>> And if I enable Lenny in my sources.list and do another update, I still
>> have the same problem.
>>
>> So it seems to me that there's no ("normal, everyday-user") way to
>> validate that the Lenny packages are valid without first installing a
>> Lenny package which you can't be sure is valid.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>     
>
> The package is there in stable, testing and unstable as far as I can
> see.  Perhaps the mirror you are using has been slow to update.
>
> bob@trantor:~$ apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring
> debian-archive-keyring:
>   Installed: 2009.01.31
>   Candidate: 2009.01.31
>   Version table:
>  *** 2009.01.31 0
>         990 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main Packages
>         500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages
>         500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>   

With Lenny in my sources.list:


Sun Feb 15     12:57:12
-------------
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring
debian-archive-keyring:
  Installed: 2007.07.31~etch1
  Candidate: 2009.01.31
  Version table:
     2009.01.31 0
        990 http://ftp.debian.org lenny/main Packages
 *** 2007.07.31~etch1 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


If I comment out Lenny:

Sun Feb 15     12:57:14
-------------
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Password:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Beta i386
NETINST Binary-1 20070326-09:02]/ etch contrib main


#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main

#deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib


Sun Feb 15     12:57:55
-------------
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch Release
Ign http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages
Fetched 2B in 0s (2B/s)
Reading package lists... Done


Sun Feb 15     12:57:59
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westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> apt-cache policy debian-archive-keyring
debian-archive-keyring:
  Installed: 2007.07.31~etch1
  Candidate: 2007.07.31~etch1
  Version table:
 *** 2007.07.31~etch1 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


Sun Feb 15     12:58:04
-------------
westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude install debian-archive-keyring
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  tzdata
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done


Sun Feb 15     13:00:30
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westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> apt-cache show debian-archive-keyring
Package: debian-archive-keyring
Priority: important
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 56
Maintainer: Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 2007.07.31~etch1
Depends: gnupg (>= 1.0.6-4)
Filename:
pool/main/d/debian-archive-keyring/debian-archive-keyring_2007.07.31~etch1_all.deb
Size: 9318
MD5sum: 46d0ba96a62b75573fe8c5fe59ab20b7
SHA1: f60d46e921a69108eaa97e4c12d4be83a5c79e0d
SHA256: 2a7d7e9c9a5afc9b6026ba10ff9c78b0d57be5005f76f7d78b58827ed32ae725
Description: GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive
 The Debian project digitally signs its Release files. This package
 contains the archive keys used for that.
Tag: admin::file-distribution, role::data, security::authentication,
suite::debian


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