aptitude upgrade error message

aptitude upgrade error message

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Can someone please explain this error? I have the following line in my
/etc/apt/sources.list:

deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

and when I do an aptitude full-upgrade, I get this error message:

E: Release file expired, ignoring
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release (invalid since 1d
20h 51min 30s)

I haven't made any changes in the sources.list  for many months, the
error just began occuring over the weekend.

Thanks,

Chuck

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Re: aptitude upgrade error message

[Littlefield, Tyler]

I'm not totally sure if this helps, but try an aptitude update, then the 
upgrade.
On 11/22/2010 10:50 AM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Can someone please explain this error? I have the following line in my
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
>
> and when I do an aptitude full-upgrade, I get this error message:
>
> E: Release file expired, ignoring
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/Release (invalid since 1d
> 20h 51min 30s)
>
> I haven't made any changes in the sources.list  for many months, the
> error just began occuring over the weekend.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck
>


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Thanks,
Ty

Re: aptitude upgrade error message

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:08:58AM -0700, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> I'm not totally sure if this helps, but try an aptitude update, then
> the upgrade.

Actually the script that does the aptitude full-upgrade includes an
aptitude update immediately before it, but in the meantime I have made
the error go away by doing this, strangely enough:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

The above was done manually, not in a script. I had a bunch of packages
upgraded, one removed, and then out of curiosity I ran the script that
uses aptitude instead of apt-get, and the error message no longer
occured. 

Very peculiar.

Chuck


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Re: aptitude upgrade error message

[Jude DaShiell]

Sometimes it helps to do a dselect update <enter> since what may have 
expired may be the gpg keys and that command updates those.