Re: Re: Debian Etch: problems with unauthenticated packages

"RS Chakravarti" <[email protected]> 12 Feb 2006 10:07:20 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.org.region.india.fsug-kochi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks.
I shall look at wiki.debian.org.
My mirror was created with "apt-move update"
and contains files like
dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz --
is this what you meant?
If not, please clarify.
My Sarge and Woody mirrors worked perfectly.


On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 Mahesh T.Pai wrote :
>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
>
>--
>Mahesh T. Pai   ||  http://paivakil.blogspot.com
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>
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