From: fulanoperez@???

> To: dng@???
>
> KatolaZ:
>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 01:15:08PM +0000, Fulano Diego Perez wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> KatolaZ:
>>>> # apt-get update
>>>>
>>>> before trying to install/upgrade packages? One reason why you might
>>>> have a 404 is that the cache kept by apt is older than the actual
>>>> version.
>>>
>>> dont be sorry.
>>>
>>> yes, did the obvious updates ..
>>
>> OK. Could you please retry and report which packages give a 404, and
>> also post the relevant sections of your sources.list?
>
> i just went back to default for now...

It could that going back may not be giving you a 404 error but you may have the incorrect
repository.
Based on advise passed yesterday by fsmithred on Dev1.galaxy forum I compiled a complete list of repositories as found on pkgmanager.
According to fsmithred those that are both on devuan and merged should be on merged. Those that are only on devuan and not merged should only be on devuan.

So the complete list to pick from (some are optional repositories) is this:

deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-backports main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-security main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ascii-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ ascii-proposed main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ ascii-proposed-security main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ ceres main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ jessie-proposed main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ jessie-proposed-backports main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ jessie-proposed-security main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-security main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ sid main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ stable main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ stable-backports main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ stable-proposed main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ stable-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ stable-security main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ stable-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ testing main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ testing-backports main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/ testing-proposed main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ testing-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ testing-security main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ testing-updates main contrib non-free
deb https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged/ unstable main contrib non-free

deb tor://devuanfwojg73k6r.onion/ should be replaced to use the onion address or you could add tor+https://pkg.... to use tor without onion addresses.

After I corrected the merged/devuan confusion on a proposed.. repository the 404 error went away. The incorrect repository before the amprolla3 switch was not producing an error. This is on a really old 32bit machine running jessie, it is unrelated to the issue I talked about a couple of days ago.

I hope this helps to end the confusion. I think some of those repositories, like sid, may be empty but that is not a 404 error, or the side that has non-free may be empty. I hope that someone will verify this list is correct before my mistake or misperception spills more panic.

PS For https and tor you need apt-transport-https & apt-transport-tor otherwise substitute http from the list, right?

PS2 The tor-project repositories are:
deb tor://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org/ stretch main
deb tor://sdscoq7snqtznauu.onion/torproject.org/ tor-experimental-0.3.2.x-stretch main
or https://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org
but you must first import the gpg key