On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:16:37AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 08/18/2015 07:18 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > * It's possible to disable the checking of the valid-until field of > > Release files in your sources.list, for snapshot archives and > > friends. > > How do I actually do that? Is there a flag I can supply using > rectangular brackets? This feature is really useful for us porters Yes. The following should do it, but see the sources.list(5) manpage (from the experimental version of course) for details. deb [check-valid-until=no] http://example.org/debian … Note that apt versions not supporting this option will simply ignore it. Having options is relatively "new" (squeeze), but even apt versions before that parsed (and ignored) the []-options. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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