On Thursday 27 of August 2020 17:13:46 William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > On Thursday 27 August 2020 08:05:17 Slávek Banko wrote: > > On Thursday 27 of August 2020 16:40:40 William Morder via > > trinity-users > > > > wrote: > > > Okay guys, so I am stumped and confuzzled. > > > > > > I just did an upgrade to Devuan Beowulf (= Debian Buster), and > > > everything went fine; except once up and running, I couldn't > > > download more than a few of Trinity's packages. > > > > > > After trying different repositories, and playing with my sources > > > list, I managed to do just a bit better, then I saved the day with > > > some extreme voodoo using about config [*I meant to say, apt-get* > > > ... writing on auto-pilot] (scrolling through the manpages to find > > > something that work). I ended up getting enough the Trinity packages > > > to download by using --ignore-hold and dselect-upgrade options. I > > > even searched out the links to deb packages on the developers' > > > repositories, and downloaded them with wget, so that I could try > > > forcing install using dpkg. > > > > > > Now at least (at last) I do have a working system which is a > > > reasonable facsimile of my previous one, but it does seem like it > > > ought to have been easier. For about the past three days now, I've > > > lived in the command-line. > > > > > > Also I would like recommendations for a firewall that displays > > > active connections and rules, etc., like the old Firestarter used to > > > do. I catch all kinds of problems by noticing activity on my > > > firewall, but now I cannot seem to find one that displays active > > > connections, and Firestarter can no longer be hacked to make it work > > > on a newer system. > > > > > > Thanks for any advice or comments, > > > > > > Bill > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > what problems do you observe? Do packages report incorrect size / > > checksum after download? Or do you get a 404 response? Or something > > else? > > > > Lately, I've been seeing more often that probably due to a > > malfunctioning transparent proxy somewhere at the provider, I'm > > getting corrupted and apt lists or damaged packages. And I have to > > download them repeatedly and repeatedly and... For such cases, it > > usually helps me to set up apt to know that the broken proxy is in the > > way: > > > > Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth "0"; > > Acquire::http::No-Cache=True; > > Acquire::BrokenProxy=true; > > > > Cheers > > Ordinarily I would always use a proxy -- and have no problems at all -- > but tork-trinity, tor, etc., are some of the packages that will not > download. > > The packages are listed when I do apt-cache search, etc., but then when > I tried to download, it would ask for dependencies that seemed like they > were for Bullseye. So then I tried using Sid, Bullseye, unstable, etc., > but finally went back to vanilla Devuan Beowulf, and Buster for the > Trinity repositories. When I ran Jessie, I would always use your PSB > repo, and now I also have tried PTB repo, but it kept saying I needed > 11.0 Buster packages. So I went back to the Trinity ppa repo (I believe > it's Tim's or a mirror thereof), along with vanilla Devuan (pkgmaster, > etc.), and then I played with dpkg and apt-get as already described. > > Now it's working, but I still have problems finding or downloading > packages, even though I see them listed. > > Bill > I remember seeing package availability issues when I wanted to prepare build-root for Devuan Chimaera. There were exclusively Devuan apt sources and for me it seemed that there was some broken state of the merge process of the Debian + Devuan packages on Devuan side. I didn't try to examine it in more detail - I didn't want to waste time - and I put it off until later. Cheers -- Slávek
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