Looking in the log for cron.daily, I discovered the following problem:
  /etc/cron.daily/apt contains a line:
      apt-key net-update
  which gives:
      ERROR: no location for the archive-keyring given
  the net-update command is accepted, although it is neither in the man nor
  in "apt-key --help"
  "apt-key update" gives no error.
Is the bug in /etc/cron.daily/apt  or in apt-key (or both)?
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Pierre Frenkiel