Hi Adrian,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
I'm aware that you need to pass "check-valid-until=no trusted=yes
allow-insecure=yes"
to APT for it to really work with snapshots where the signature has expired.
It's
one of the longstanding annoying issues with APT that upstream has not fixed
yet.
had to re-discover it myself!
Snapshots might be a clue to my solution, but I need to fix the
conflicts. I think certain packages need old version of the libraries
which kick out the new ones.
I tried to use aptitude which told me I had conflicts
"Trying to fix broken packages"
sometimes does miracle, but in this case did run for almost a day (!)
and then crashed. I guess it gets into something like a loop.
To ease situation, I uninstalled some non-essential packages (I can
reinstall them later anyway) which reduce dependencies and put as "auto"
lots of packages. LIbraries, dev libraries...
I continued that way including inetd related things... except sshd.
At that point "apt-get distupgrade" was able to complete!! yay! so from
that I reconstructed things and was able to reboot.
Now I can also use snapshots to test intermediate kernels, like I did
non SPARC64, however, without GRUB it is cumbersome, only two kernels to
switch between and one neets to be "known good"!
Riccardo
