On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:18:38 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> wrote:

> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 10:10:56 -0400
> >
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett@...> wrote:  
> > > From the plethora of errors I'm getting in a synaptic refresh, the
> > > wheezy repos seem to have been shut down. Support ended June 30
> > > IIRC. Even backports is 404. The rest are address not found.  
> >
> > Hm? http://ftp.debian.org/ still have wheezy.  
> but no key files, something aptitude doesn't tolerate, and synaptic 
> complains about at length.
> or just plain gone. If synaptic will copy/paste:
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/Release.gpg  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/main/binary-i386/Packages  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/contrib/binary-i386/Packages  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/non-free/binary-i386/Packages  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/contrib/i18n/Translation-en_US  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/contrib/i18n/Translation-en  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en_US  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/main/i18n/Translation-en  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/non-free/i18n/Translation-en_US  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://http.us.debian.net/debian/dists/wheezy-backports/non-free/i18n/Translation-en  
> Something wicked happened resolving 'http.us.debian.net:http' (-5 - No 
> address associated with hostname)
> Failed to fetch 
> http://mozilla.debian.net/dists/wheezy-backports/firefox-release/binary-i386/Packages  
> 404  Not Found [IP: 149.20.4.15 80]
> Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones 
> used instead.

The us.debian.net mirror is down apparently. Use a different one. I have a
wheezy machine and just ran a apt-get update without problem.


> 
> 
> > The debian repos are 
> > never gone, the older one just get moved to http://archive.debian.org  
> 
> So I should edit the repos to be archive.debian.org?  Is there just one, 
> no mirrors?
> 

No, wheezy is still in the main repos, it have not yet moved to archive.


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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)