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Re: Resolution -- Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?)

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On 2018-12-18 15:07, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/16/2018 01:03 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> My sources.list has lines of the form
>> deb trusted=yes file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib
>> 
>> When using Synaptic's "Edit->Reload Package Information" the error 
>> message is:
>>> E: Malformed entry 3 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse)
>>> E: The list of sources could not be read.
>>> Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
>>> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
>> 
> 
> There were three problems -- one mine, two Synaptic's.
> 
> Mine was the content of sources.list .
> As was pointed out
> deb trusted=yes file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib
> should have been
> deb [ trusted=yes ] file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main 
> contrib
> 
> The Synaptic problems were:
> 1. There's a side effect of originally installing system from DVD(s).
>    Synaptic when doing "Edit->Reload Package Information" will not
>    accept there being any existing reference to DVD(s) in sources.list.
> 2. Although Synaptic has no problems with processing Packages.gz from
>    a DVD it requires it to have been unzipped when reading from a disk.

I've got into trouble for replying to list emails in the past but I 
would advise rather than worrying about understanding everything that 
comes along get something you want the computer to do and worry about 
those bits.

mick
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Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-12-16 20:10 +0100
  Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-12-16 20:30 +0100
  Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-12-16 20:30 +0100
  Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-12-16 20:40 +0100
  Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-16 21:10 +0100
  Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2018-12-17 05:20 +0100
    Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-12-17 09:20 +0100
      Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-12-17 15:00 +0100
        Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-17 20:20 +0100
  Resolution -- Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page  problem?) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-12-18 16:10 +0100
    Re: Resolution -- Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page  problem?) mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-12-18 16:30 +0100
      Re: Resolution -- Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page  problem?) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-12-18 17:20 +0100
        Re: Resolution -- Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man  page problem?) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-18 19:00 +0100

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