[clug] Re-signing Debian Packages

jm jeffm at ghostgun.com
Thu Jan 12 03:21:54 UTC 2023


The key, excuse the pun, bit in both of those is that it is your key 
which you are updating. Not realising this yesterday I tried the 
directions in the first link you provide and ran into it complaining I 
didn't have the secret key.

Jeff.

On 12/1/23 12:26, Jevan Pipitone via linux wrote:
> I don't know whether either of these links might help?
>
> https://linux-audit.com/how-to-solve-an-expired-key-keyexpired-with-apt/
>
> https://makandracards.com/makandra-orga/13644-what-to-do-when-your-gpg-pgp-key-expires 
>
>
> It seems you might be able to update the key, using "apt-key".
>
> I had a problem like this in the past, which I eventually had to 
> reinstall my whole debian with the latest version, because the whole 
> update wasn't working anymore on the older version, due to some 
> mistakes I'd made when installing software. For this reason I document 
> (in .txt files) every change I make to the system, so that if I have 
> to redo it, and can then I can reinstall the latest debian, and redo 
> all of the changes.
>
> Jevan.




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