Dev1 Galaxy Forum / [SOLVED] The firmware-iwlwifi not upgradable in excalibur/testing.

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

dummy@example.com (Ermiq) — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:04:40 +0000

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.

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

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 11:33:24 +0000

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

Glad that its solved now.

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

dummy@example.com (Ermiq) — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 10:43:12 +0000

rolfie wrote:

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.

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

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 10:14:31 +0000

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

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

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

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:25:17 +0000

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

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

dummy@example.com (Ermiq) — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:45:17 +0000

GlennW wrote:

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?

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

dummy@example.com (GlennW) — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:33:11 +0000

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.

safe adventures.

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

dummy@example.com (Ermiq) — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 18:41:42 +0000

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?