Hi Steffen!

On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:30:48 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> http://zdanek.ostrejezyki.pl/2008/10/07/develop/installing-debian-on-neo1973/
>
> already ran into this problem:
>
> Install a basic Debian system
>  * Downloading cdebootstrap package
> Connecting to ftp2.de.debian.org (195.71.9.196:80)
> cdebootstrap.deb     100%
> |*******************************************************************************|
>    521k
> 00:00:00 ETA
>  * Running cdebootstrap to install the system (might take a while)
> I: Can't find keyring debian-archive-keyring.gpg
[...]
> but I am objecting to his idea that I should download the keyring
> manually since it has worked before

And also because it is not a solution at all.

> Does anybody know what is happening? Might it be because of some
> server (ours at Tue Mar 10 21:24:43 CET 2009) not being usable at the
> moment? I very much presume so since two minutes later, everything
> seems back to normal.

You are right, I experienced the same sometime, simply solved by
changing mirror or waiting, as in your case.

> I am interested to learn about your opinions on this observation. I
> suggest to improve the error message a bit, since in its current
> state, the "Couldn't validate Packages" is the only information that
> the user gets and this seems missleading.

I do not consider this a problem in the install.sh script: it is a more
general one and we should just provide a note in the wiki, if it is not
already there.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Attachment: pgpf3uYQ5Zc6z.pgp
Description: PGP signature

_______________________________________________
pkg-fso-maint mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-fso-maint

Reply via email to