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Re: RESOLVED: Synaptic error message

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On Sun 27 Jun 2021 at 16:00:12 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> On 06/27/2021 12:50 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > 
> > On 26/06/2021 15:20, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I have a empty machine on which I've done a default install of
> > > Debian 10.7.0 with MATE as my desktop. As I intend later to install
> > > some non-Debian software I wanted a local repository. To have a known
> > > base to start from I extracted the contents of dvd1.iso to a local
> > > directory.
> > > 
> > > My sources.list references it as:
> > > > deb [ Trusted=yes ] file:////home/richard/DVDs/dvd1/ buster main
> > > > contrib  non-free
> > > 
> > > In Synaptic when I do Edit->Reload Package Information it responds:
> > > > The repository 'file://home/richard/DVDs/dvd1 buster Release' is not
> > > > signed.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2B%22synaptic%22%20%2B%22repository%22%20%2B%22not%20signed%22%20site%3Adebian.org
> > > gives no useful information.
> > > 
> > > What do I do?
> > > What should I have read?
> > 
> > "man sources.list" will give you the format of the "deb ..." line. In
> > particular, it will tell you that the command for setting a repository
> > to trusted is "trusted", rather than "Trusted". Computers can be a
> > little TOO literal at times.
> > 
> 
> That works. I had had it lowercase but I was also chasing some other error
> and the page of examples I was following had it upper case. One of those
> cases where it would be nice to have a larger variety of examples on the man
> page.

What need is there for examples when the manual is clarity itself??

Under

 THE DEB AND DEB-SRC TYPES: OPTIONS

sources.list(5) has

  •Trusted (trusted) is a tri-state value...

and

  For simplicity we list the deb822 field name and provide the one-line
  name in brackets.  

You are using the one-line format.

-- 
Brian.

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Synaptic error message Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-26 16:30 +0200
  Re: Synaptic error message "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-26 17:20 +0200
    Re: Synaptic error message Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-26 17:50 +0200
      Re: Synaptic error message "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-26 18:50 +0200
      Re: Synaptic error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-06-26 20:20 +0200
        Re: Synaptic error message Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 21:00 +0200
        Re: Synaptic error message Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-06-27 10:30 +0200
          Re: Synaptic error message rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-06-27 14:50 +0200
  Re: Synaptic error message Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-06-27 20:00 +0200
    RESOLVED: Synaptic error message Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-27 23:10 +0200
      Re: RESOLVED: Synaptic error message Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-06-28 00:40 +0200
        Re: RESOLVED: Synaptic error message Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-28 00:50 +0200

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