On Sun 27 Jun 2021 at 16:00:12 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 06/27/2021 12:50 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> >
> > On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of
> > > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install
> > > some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known
> > > base to start from I extracted the contents of dvd1.iso to a local
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > My sources.list references it as:
> > > > deb [ Trusted=yes ] file:home/richard/DVDs/dvd1/ buster main
> > > > contrib non-free
> > >
> > > In Synaptic when I do Edit->Reload Package Information it responds:
> > > > The repository 'file://home/richard/DVDs/dvd1 buster Release' is not
> > > > signed.
> > >
> > >
> > > https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B%22synaptic%22%20%2B%22repository%22%20%2B%22not%20signed%22%20site%3Adebian.org
> > > gives no useful information.
> > >
> > > What do I do?
> > > What should I have read?
> >
> > "man sources.list" will give you the format of the "deb ..." line. In
> > particular, it will tell you that the command for setting a repository
> > to trusted is "trusted", rather than "Trusted". Computers can be a
> > little TOO literal at times.
> >
>
> That works. I had had it lowercase but I was also chasing some other error
> and the page of examples I was following had it upper case. One of those
> cases where it would be nice to have a larger variety of examples on the man
> page.
What need is there for examples when the manual is clarity itself??
Under
THE DEB AND DEB-SRC TYPES: OPTIONS
sources.list(5) has
•Trusted (trusted) is a tri-state value...
and
For simplicity we list the deb822 field name and provide the one-line
name in brackets.
You are using the one-line format.
--
Brian.
