Resolution -- Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?)

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 12/16/2018 01:03 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My sources.list has lines of the form
> deb trusted=yes file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib
>
> When using Synaptic's "Edit->Reload Package Information" the error 
> message is:
> > E: Malformed entry 3 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse)
> > E: The list of sources could not be read.
> > Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
> > E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

There were three problems -- one mine, two Synaptic's.

Mine was the content of sources.list .
As was pointed out
deb trusted=yes file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib
should have been
deb [ trusted=yes ] file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib

The Synaptic problems were:
1. There's a side effect of originally installing system from DVD(s).
   Synaptic when doing "Edit->Reload Package Information" will not
   accept there being any existing reference to DVD(s) in sources.list.
2. Although Synaptic has no problems with processing Packages.gz from
   a DVD it requires it to have been unzipped when reading from a disk.