Archive repository for Debian Squeeze

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Leahkim picture Leahkim · Mar 18, 2016 · Viewed 21.2k times · Source

I still use Debian Squeeze, and since this release has been archived (Feb 29, 2016) I use the archives repositories on archive.debian.org

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ squeeze-lts main contrib non-free

Since 2 days , I get this error message with aptitude update: (same with apt-get)

E: Release file expired, ignoring http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze-lts/Release (invalid since 2d 17h 24                                                                                                                        min 57s)

With increasing time of course. I tried many other archives repositories but same error. I found this workaround:

aptitude -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update

It works, but I would find a solution without this option. I have no fast possibility to update aptitude parameters on all servers I'm running.

By the way the question is: what is the problem with repositories ? Am I doing something wrong ?

I found no update or news about repositories problem on Debian site/mailing list.

Answer

Heisenberg picture Heisenberg · Apr 8, 2016

Create a file with setting:

echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false";' >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90ignore-release-date

The release-files of the repository have an expire date (Valid-until).

See the part in the documentation: https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#Date.2CValid-Until

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