Package: debmirror
Version: 20041209
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hello Goswin,
Every time when I try to run debmirror on a new system, I spend half an
hour to figure out the right gpg syntax and the server name. While this
subject doesn't belong here, I think we could save users' and
maintainers' time if we added the attached tip to the package docs.
Thanks in advance,
Baurzhan.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages debmirror depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.2-2 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libcompress-zlib-perl 1.33-3 Perl module for creation and manip
ii liblockfile-simple-perl 0.2.5-4 Simple advisory file locking
ii libwww-perl 5.800-2 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules [libnet-perl] 5.8.4-6 Core Perl modules
ii rsync 2.6.3-2 fast remote file copy program (lik
-- no debconf information
diff -Naurp -X /home/ibr/tmp/root/prg/dontdiff.ibr
debmirror-20050207.orig/debian/NEWS.Debian debmirror-20050207/debian/NEWS.Debian
--- debmirror-20050207.orig/debian/NEWS.Debian 2005-02-07 05:25:22.000000000
+0100
+++ debmirror-20050207/debian/NEWS.Debian 2005-07-01 12:12:50.000000000
+0200
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ debmirror (20050207) unstable; urgency=n
!!! This breaks existing debmirror scripts and cron !!!
!!! jobs in almost all cases. Take care to adapt. !!!
+ To do that, install the gnupg package and run something like
+
+ gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv-keys <key ID>
+
+ <key ID> is a number 4F368D5D and can be found in the gpg error
+ message from debmirror -v output.
+
* Release files are now mandatory unless ignored
Sometimes downloads of meta files can abort for some reason and the
