Re: missing dependencies while updating

Hello,

On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 15:38 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> Even if I run:
> apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update
> 
> I get:
> E: The repository 
> 'http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20240701T014213Z 
> unstable InRelease' is not signed.
> N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is 
> therefore disabled by default.
> 
> I tried adding allow-insecure=yes, but it was not enough, nor 
> trusted=yes. But together I could finally upgrade things, even if 
> getting errors:
> 
> e.g.:
> 
> deb [check-valid-until=no allow-insecure=yes trusted=yes] 
> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian-ports/20240612T013548Z/ 
> unstable main

I'm aware that you need to pass "check-valid-until=no trusted=yes allow-insecure=yes"
to APT for it to really work with snapshots where the signature has expired. It's
one of the longstanding annoying issues with APT that upstream has not fixed yet.

Adrian

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