Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Installing mips port to Yeeloong continues to fail

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 15, 2009, Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 02:14:59AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> linux-image-2.6.27.7-libre-medan

> Why are you installing this one?  It's just an old version liing around.

As I said, because depmod was crashing, and I was even getting
differences between some .ko files across separate installs of the
non-medan kernel.

Once I installed the medan kernel, depmod -a works fine.  I figured
perhaps it was more stable, or more suitable for the hardware I had, or
some such.

Also, don't assume I know what I'm doing.  It's my first week trying to
actually use this machine, and it's my first week actually trying to use
a .deb-based distro :-)  I had no idea there was so much truth to the
claims that GNU/Linux distros have diverged so much!

>> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

> Which key is failing?  (apt-get update should tell you)

I don't see any failure here :-(

# apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l Release.gpg [191B]         
Get:2 http://dev.lemote.com loongson Release.gpg [197B]                
Ign http://dev.lemote.com loongson/main Translation-en_US              
Ign http://dev.lemote.com loongson Release     
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l Release.gpg [197B]                 
Ign http://dev.lemote.com loongson/main Packages/DiffIndex                     
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://dev.lemote.com loongson/main Packages   
Ign http://dev.lemote.com loongson/main Packages
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l Release                              
Hit http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l Release                              
Hit http://dev.lemote.com loongson/main Packages
Hit http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l Release
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Packages
Hit http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Packages
Ign http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Packages                        
Hit http://archive.gnewsense.org mipsel-l/main Packages                        
Fetched 776B in 6s (123B/s)                                                    
Reading package lists... Done

> Isn't debian-archive-keyring providing the key you need?

It is providing the one key I thought I'd need.  I didn't know whether
any other keys might still be needed, so I asked.

> Perhaps you're missing a dist-upgrade?

This is a fresh install.  The latest debian-archive-keyring was there
all the way from the beginning, even in the D-I initrd image.

Regardless, I tried dist-upgrade yesterday, but it did nothing
whatsoever.

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