Thanks Curt, Yauhen answered me an exemple who helped me spot a typo I made. The archive shouldn't point at debian.net/ but at debian.org/, like clearly mentionned in [1]. Doing so fixes both the "503 Service Unavailable" error and the requirement to install the apt-transport-https package. I thus could successfully reinstall my Jessie instance. The backports works as expected (when well configured).
Yauhen complete answer should soon appears on debian-user@ (he sent it to me first by mistake, then re-sent it to the list). I copy paste him in the meantime. He add something important to make all works. If not set, apt-get still doesn't want to load the backports repository. I wonder if it's meant to be a temporary fix or not ? > The last one is actually expired. To work around it, you can create file > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10no--check-valid-until with the following content: > Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "0"; It now just feel strange to have the main source on http.debian.net and the backports on http://archive.debian.org. I guess I will update my two-stage procedure to converge in order to grab everything from the archive. Or would it be advisable to still grab the non-backports packages from the mirrors ? I ponder this both 1/ not to add avoidable load to the archive server (who could be handled throught the mirrors network), 2/ speed and bandwidth wise regarding the reinstallation of my instances. What would be recommanded ? My current /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this : > deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie main > deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main Pierre. [1] : http://archive.debian.org/debian/README Le mar. 26 mars 2019 à 13:26, Curt <cu...@free.fr> a écrit : > > On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès <pierre.fou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > W: Failed to fetch > > http://archive.debian.net/debian/dists/jessie-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages > > HttpError503 > > > > When I go there in a browser (https://archive.debian.net/), I get: > > Service disabled! > Unfortunately, this service is not available at this time. It is not > known when its maintainer will be able to provide it again. > This service is not provided by the Debian System Administration team > but instead by an individual member of the Debian project. > > Please do not contact the DSA team with questions about this service. > > > E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old > > ones used instead. > > > > > > > -- > “Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, > which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a > plain > and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance-- > we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves >
