Re: Debian Etch: problems with unauthenticated packages

RS Chakravarti said on Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:52:04AM -0000,:

 > Now my mirror appears useless as it is ignored when I do
 > apt-get update.

You should  move these files using  apt-move and you have  to create a
packages.gz  in the  directory where  you moved  this files  to, using
apt-move.

Next,  you  have add  this  directory/source to  /etc/apt/sources.list
file.

 > Earlier the system complained of unauthenticated packages.
 > At some point it stopped complaining but silently ignores
 > packages in the mirror!
 > 
 > Could anyone tell me how to get the contents of my mirror
 > authenticated using GPG so as to satisfy apt?

You need to create a gpg key for this. 

See http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt
 
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