Digby Tarvin wrote:
I am trying to get up the courage to update my debian etch system
after a few months of neglecting to do so, but am dreading the thought of
some mishap leaving the system unusable.
The system was installed back in April, and is on a Fujitsu P7120, and
aptitude produces quite a long list of things it wants to delete and
upgrade, so I want to be cautious about telling it to go ahead.
The first thing that gives me cause for concern is that the output
resulting from a 'apt-get update' does not look very clean:
Get:1 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch Release.gpg [378B]
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release
Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch Release
Err http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release
Get:3 http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release [5560B]
Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch/main Packages
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release
Hit http://mirror.ox.ac.uk etch/main Sources
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages
Get:4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Fetched 5751B in 0s (7515B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: There are no public key available for the following key IDs:
A70DAF536070D3A1
W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch Release: The following
signa
tures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY
07
DC563D1F41B907
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Are any of these messages things that should concern me? Why the 'Err',
'Ign' and 'W:' messages?
My sources.list looks like this:
deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ etch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main
The multimedia web site only mentions
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
for sources - nothing specifically for Etch. Is it safe/desireble
to add that to my sources list?
I have tried adding the PGP key for the multimedia packages as
per the instructions on the web site, but get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys
1F41B907
gpg: requesting key 1F41B907 from hkp server wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error
One other thing that I am unsure about is that aptitude reports a number
of packages being 'held back'. I havn't intentionally asked for this,
could it have occured automatically or have I unintentionally done
something when initially learning to use aptitude?
So don't upgrade / dist-upgrade a running partition.
Copy the partition to another one and upgrade *that* one.
Then if something goes wrong you lost nothing.
Hugo
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