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Ermiq

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Registered: 2022-02-06

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[SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

There's a problem with the firmware-iwlwifi package in the excalibur/testing branch.
On an upgrade attempt I get this:

Ign:1 http://devuan.sedf.de/merged excalibur/non-free-firmware amd64 firmware-iwlwifi all 20230515-3
Err:1 http://devuan.sedf.de/merged excalibur/non-free-firmware amd64 firmware-iwlwifi all 20230515-3
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.86.132 80]
E: Failed to fetch http://devuan.sedf.de/merged/pool/DEBIAN/non-free-firmware/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_20230515-3_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.86.132 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

apt update and apt upgrade --fix-missing don't fix the issue. 
It's not a connection issue because right now I have upgraded the other packages by marking the firmware-iwlwifi as "hold" with

apt-mark hold firmware-iwlwifi

. Obviously unless I mark it as "hold" the upgrade process fails due to the 404 error. 

The link from the apt error message shows that there's no package with the given version (20230515-3) in Debian repos - it leads to 404 page. But there are two other versions: 
20230210-5: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-f … -5_all.deb 
20230625-1: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/non-f … -1_all.deb 

PS: 2 days ago the same thing happened to firmware-misc-nonfree as well. I've been getting 404 errors for both iwlwifi and misc-nonfree packages, but then somehow the misc-nonfree one successfully upgraded. Yet the iwlwifi one still not upgradable. 
Is this a known issue?

GlennW

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2019-07-18

Posts: 590  

Re: [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

If you want an older package, install the old one.20230210-5 (feb10 2023)

If you want to update the package, get the newest.(june25 2023)

I think the issue is that May 2023 package has been removed.

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Ermiq

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Registered: 2022-02-06

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Re: [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

I think the issue is that May 2023 package has been removed.

Well... Yes, but why does apt think that this non-existent version is a candidate for upgrade? 
Here's the apt policy firmware-iwlwifi output:

firmware-iwlwifi:
  Installed: 20230210-5
  Candidate:   20230515-3
  Versions table:
     20230515-3 500
        500 http://devuan.sedf.de/merged excalibur/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
        500 http://devuan.sedf.de/merged excalibur/non-free-firmware i386 Packages
 *** 20230210-5 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Shouldn't apt update get the actualized information about available candidates?

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,067  

Re: [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

Maybe the mirror isn't up to date? Perhaps you try deb.devuan.org/merged instead?

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

Just tested on my Excalibur VM against deb.devuan.org:

# apt list firmware-iwlwifi
Auflistung… Fertig
firmware-iwlwifi/testing 20230625-1 all

Ermiq

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Registered: 2022-02-06

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Re: [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

Maybe the mirror isn't up to date? Perhaps you try deb.devuan.org/merged instead?

I've been trying different mirrors in Germany, Netherlands, Serbia and Russia, and they all had the non-existent version. The deb.devuan.org doesn't work for me because it takes forever to connect. 
Right now I did apt update once again and finally there's the June 25 version available.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

Looks like that was a typical temporary hickup of the testing repo and its mirrors.

Glad that its solved now.

Ermiq

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Registered: 2022-02-06

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Re: [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

After reboot with the new version I got broken WiFi. Had to reinstall the old version (Feb10) from daedalus. But this is not Devuan's issue now, so the original issue is solved I guess.