On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:39:20AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 05:27:21AM -0200, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:49:21PM +0530, Amit wrote: > > > I am not able to install any packages related to linaro for example > > > when I tried that below command > > > > > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linaro-maintainers/toolchain > > > I am getting error like > > > Error reading > > > https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/toolchain: > > > <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> > > > > > > But when I use a direct INTERNET connection without proxy its working > > > fine. > > > > The problem you're running into is that add-apt-repository is fetching a > > GPG key from the Ubuntu keyserver, which is running on port 11371. You > > can indeed punch a hold in the firewall, but you can also just issue > > > > sudo gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 7BE1F97B > > > > since this is a one-time operation -- once the key is set up > > transferring packages is done over regular http. > > Is there a reason why we don't simply preinstall that key in the apt > keyring before shipping the filesystem?
It's a good question. I'm going to borrow James W.'s opinion here who will know of any unforseen consequences of it. > The same goes for pre-seeding the apt litsts: downloading them as > linaro-media-create time is worryingly non-deterministic. Really, the > releases should be 100% self-contained. I think the reason we don't pre-seed these is that they take up a lot of space on the downloaded image. Am I wrong? -- Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP Brazil (GMT-3) | [+55] 16 9112 6430 | [+1] 612 216 4935 Linaro.org: Open Source Software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
