Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

[Adam Cecile <adam.cecile@hitec.lu>]

On 06/20/2018 09:43 AM, john doe wrote:
> On 6/20/2018 8:47 AM, Adam Cecile wrote:
> > On 06/20/2018 08:39 AM, john doe wrote:
> > > On 6/19/2018 10:55 PM, Adam Cecile wrote:
> > > > On 06/19/2018 10:48 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Adam Cecile wrote:
> > > > > > That's a pity, don't you think so ? I think Debian should renew the
> > > > > > archive key, so we can still verify packages signatures.
> > > > > You can still verify them. Key expiration doesn't make existing
> > > > > signatures invalid. [Indeed, gpgv doesn't even check for expired 
> > > > > keys.]
> > > > With apt ? I had to set allowunauthenticated = 1 in apt.conf, 
> > > > otherwise apt wouldn't install anything.
> > >
> > > Can you give us the warning/error you're getting?
> >   ---> Running in 2300490ebb96
> > Get:1 http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [1655 B]
> > Get:2 http://archive.debian.org squeeze-lts Release.gpg [819 B]
> > Get:3 http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release [96.0 kB]
> > Ign http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release
> > Get:4 http://archive.debian.org squeeze-lts Release [34.3 kB]
> > Get:5 http://archive.debian.org squeeze/main amd64 Packages [8370 kB]
> > Get:6 http://archive.debian.org squeeze-lts/main amd64 Packages [390 kB]
> > Fetched 8893 kB in 0s (10.0 MB/s)
> > Reading package lists...
> > W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release: The 
> > following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1520281423 KEYEXPIRED 
> > 1501892461
> > Reading package lists...
> > Building dependency tree...
> > Reading state information...
> > The following extra packages will be installed:
> >    libssl0.9.8 openssl
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >    ca-certificates libssl0.9.8 openssl wget
> > 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 2980 kB of archives.
> > After this operation, 7578 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> >    ca-certificates
> > E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes
>
> As other as pointed out if the expiration date is not extended on the 
> key your out of luck! :)
>
> https://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110209
>
> One workaroungd could be:
> 1)   Download all required packages
> 2)  Verify the downloaded packages using 'gpg --verify'
> 3)  Install the verified pkgs
>
> The best workaround would be to upgrade to Debian Stretch (6 to 7, 7 
> to 8, 8 to 9)! :)
>
> For sake of completeness:
>   apt-key update              - update keys using the keyring package
>   apt-key net-update          - update keys using the network
Well, that's a docker image, I'm not using Squeeze on production 
anywhere except this hacky stuff for a friend ;-)