On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 01:14:06PM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> Adrian and Olaf - thanks for the comments.
>
> This is definitely the expired key problem - so at the moment, chimaera
> can't be installed via the netinstall image. Probably the same for
> other devuan versions.
>
> Adrian - I tried changing the date as you suggested. That doesn't work
> - I now get a message in the log saying:
>
> "http://deb.devuan.org/merged/dists/chimaera/InRelease is not valid
> yet"
>
> I found that I could get the install to complete if I told it to ignore
> the error, and the resulting system would boot. However, it's obviously
> just the bare-bones base system from the netinstall image.
>
> Are the netinstall images going to be re-generated fairly soon? If not,
> is it worth while thinking of a way of importing the new key into the
> install process?

The required hands-on to make use of the current installer ISOs
includes the use of wget and dpkg at the point where the installation
first breaks, though probably only via a C-A-F2 escape to a root shell
while the installation (at C-A-F1) is blocked and waiting on the error
report dialog.

At that point you use wget to grab the devuan-keyring package
http://deb.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEVUAN/main/d/devuan-keyring/devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb
and store that at /target, so you can follow up with manual
installation into /target, by:
# chroot /target /usr/bin/dpkg -i devuan-keyring_2022.09.04_all.deb

Following that, you re-enter the installation at C-A-F1 and select
"continue" so that it re-tries with the failing step using the the
updated keyring.

On the side of all that I should add that I also taken have the
opportunity to polish the installer-iso project so that it easily
builds ISOs for the old releases. Some trial builds of that are
currently available for testing at https://ido.rrq.id.au/download

Ralph.

>
> On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 16:49 +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> > Sorry if this has been addressed before - I did look through the
> > posts,
> > but couldn't see anything relevant. Also sorry if I'm missing
> > something
> > obvious.
> >
> > I'm trying to install chimaera on a virtualbox VM, using the
> > netinstall
> > image (devuan_chimaera_4.0.0_amd64_netinstall.iso, dated Nov 18 2021)
> > -
> > I've done this many times before, without a problem. This time, when
> > I
> > get to "configure the packet manager", it comes back with "The
> > installer failed to access the mirror". I used wireshark to check
> > that
> > it's talking to the network and the server - it appears to be doing
> > so
> > (accessing server at 95.216.15.86).
> >
> > I'm wondering if it could be another effect of the recent key expiry
> > problem.
> >
> >  
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