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Giorgos

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2018-06-12

Posts: 49  

Proposed Updates repository problem.

Hi!  :-)

When executing (as root) "apt update", I'm getting this error:

#apt update
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Ign:8 http://deb.devuan.org/devuan daedalus-proposed-updates InRelease
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Err:12 http://deb.devuan.org/devuan daedalus-proposed-updates Release
404  Not Found [IP: 185.236.240.103 80]
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E: The repository 'http://deb.devuan.org/devuan daedalus-proposed-updates Release' no longer has a Release file.
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My related sources.list entry is:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/devuan daedalus-proposed-updates main contrib non-free

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I think I'm missing something here.  :-)
Any thoughts?

rolfie

Member

Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,260  

Re: Proposed Updates repository problem.

If you try again?

rolfie

Member

Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,260  

Re: Proposed Updates repository problem.

Further reading: https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

Add stable proposed-updates (default: no)

proposed-updates are packages that will become part of the next stable point release but are not fully tested yet. It is usually safe to use them, but we recommend not using them on production systems. Note that there may be rare cases where a package from Debian's proposed-updates is needed, and in that case /merged should be used instead of /devuan below.

# /etc/apt/sources.list

deb     http://deb.devuan.org/devuan <release codename>-proposed-updates main

Giorgos

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2018-06-12

Posts: 49  

Re: Proposed Updates repository problem.

OK, got it!
I delete it.

THANKS!!!

ralph.ronnquist

Administrator

From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

Posts: 1,407  

Re: Proposed Updates repository problem.

You should use the devuan-proposed-updates repository, and the soures.list line for that is

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-proposed-updates main contrib non-free non-free-.firmware

Pay special attention to the /merged URI which is what all devuan repositories have because devuan provides a merge of debian packages with an overlay of certain forked packages.

You tried to use the URI /devuan and that didn't work because that is wrong.

EDIT: you may omit some sections, like e.g. non-free but should at least include main.