Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

[John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com>]

Thanks Pascal for your hints. Indeed I had to comment out the gluster
repository which is forwarding HTTP to HTTPS, then re-run apt-cache
update, install apt-transport-https and finally modify the gluster
repository source to directly use HTTPS. That was an interesting case
;)

On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 30/12/2016 à 16:25, John Naggets a écrit :
>>
>> I have now additional source in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gluster.list
>> which is the following:
>>
>> deb
>> http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.7/3.7.16/Debian/jessie/apt
>> jessie main
>
>
> Although the URL is http, I checked that the site redirects http to https.
> IMO you should directly use "https" to make it clear that this repository
> requires the https transport.
>
>> And here would be the output of apt-cache policy:
>>
>> Package files:
>>  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>      release a=now
>>  500
>> http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.7/3.7.16/Debian/jessie/apt/
>> jessie/main amd64 Packages
>>      origin download.gluster.org
>>  500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates/main Translation-en
>>  500 http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages
>>      release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=jessie-updates,l=Debian,c=main
>>      origin ftp.ch.debian.org
>>  500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main Translation-en
>>  500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
>>      release v=8,o=Debian,a=stable,n=jessie,l=Debian-Security,c=main
>>      origin security.debian.org
>> Pinned packages:
>
>
> As I suspected, the jessie/main section on ftp.ch.debian.org is missing,
> although the line is present is sources.list :
>
>>>> deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian jessie main
>
>
> Maybe try to add another mirror and run apt-get update ?
> Or comment out the glusterfs repository and run apt-get update.
>