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Factory Reset and some questions
Continuation from other thread about my bad disk(s)... Now that I have factory reset it, it's a bit depressing to realize I lost all kinds of customizations I had made to ReadyNASOS over the cour...
So educate me, what does that mean that a release file is missing? How does that impact us?
I guess for sure there is no chance of getting netgear build essentials or lib6c-dev
anyway my Readynas yesterday suddenly decided to resync itself for no apparent reason and no reported errors. Not sure what to make of that. Maybe it’s time to shelf this thing once and for all.
what does that mean that a release file is missing
"Release" is a file that contains various hashes that confirm that the files in the repo are intact. Those include MD5, SHA1, SHA256, and SHA512. For 6.10.9, the file starts like this:
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:03:14 +0000
Suite: 6.10.9
MD5Sum:
9f75e8610c6f2d314d689ffc6c97da0a 52 Release
b82c60abb52fe90573521d201cf465cd 156913 apps/binary-amd64/Packages
99c933d2fd1e22cbe159ed60e4fbc7a2 43495 apps/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
89b529ec107eaf7588a18ec34302dc11 50483 apps/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
ecdfebed4baf9158c33e1c07d6cd16a0 129133 apps/binary-armel/Packages
f07bd706434185ae8aa8e0b1a77657ab 36090 apps/binary-armel/Packages.bz2
2549d8ee66318d1f0d1b659d9c8be169 41141 apps/binary-armel/Packages.gz
1c8b477534f19ef5aa36255549b8c6a9 82955 apps/binary-armhf/Packages
8e92693fea45bae627d848140f73c4d5 23554 apps/binary-armhf/Packages.bz2
159966c32b98316b8764e228ab576528 26503 apps/binary-armhf/Packages.gz
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0 apps/source/Sources
4059d198768f9f8dc9372dc1c54bc3c3 14 apps/source/Sources.bz2
d0920e3d745d48e04b949746e2d364ed 28 apps/source/Sources.gz
192db6a387fe9b3159d446d64da2b035 26986 dev/binary-amd64/Packages
1d39e484c054a7ca0e7f0b1a8ead4311 6772 dev/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
0a51e58adb97b3ffd88c2876a6a8faa0 6872 dev/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
1eb8b692f514515c81d3c35966384aa0 8479 dev/binary-armel/Packages
0985ed1c2cca1fe336990016200460a8 3319 dev/binary-armel/Packages.bz2
504ca3384a2ff6b656ca9ba521ed3dd8 3244 dev/binary-armel/Packages.gz
bb746dd1c057e21a71f7989856502bb6 5416 dev/binary-armhf/Packages
d27d4a1c4b0f39c62254a81c0e4288c4 2340 dev/binary-armhf/Packages.bz2
8da171630d4726f1d1562843b44da295 2231 dev/binary-armhf/Packages.gz
b5c2adef140590bf4c26ed4cd678c212 1276 dev/source/Sources
08b1750f10928e2b233d3e03afe7d4f2 718 dev/source/Sources.bz2
dc9c5528adebd832dac1d945e13b0bee 651 dev/source/Sources.gz
8bee3453e0e8022c83fc39231907b71e 669929 main/binary-amd64/Packages
c553f675d46055545d7ade691e91b4ff 148107 main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
8130d7b85ec5b35f7a26f1c9b61afd54 180493 main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
2eea14bd9fc11ae6ffb11c9f07a7bf8d 629761 main/binary-armel/Packages
446a7975f69a55fb5ad2bf0291e042a1 142663 main/binary-armel/Packages.bz2
2c4cc7893b4b4bed2824192dce9973c2 173820 main/binary-armel/Packages.gz
2fd39211b866a366cea415f711f5ecec 114868 main/binary-armhf/Packages
ab0c5836018fea74bc2ccb315d0020cc 32339 main/binary-armhf/Packages.bz2
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dfb5abede090a839de98c673ab06231b 229977 main/source/Sources
b2461f4178ac596bc96fc7c7a3e49233 64024 main/source/Sources.bz2
f6badd19a9f6418fdc16f705083b6a0f 74921 main/source/Sources.gz
bb1f5788cb8f3b7e9cf1d23f72e06f04 1386 updates/binary-amd64/Packages
3946f37b2bb2cbdf1ac985cfaeaf9b4f 858 updates/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2
45c70c7750ad2b8981592ca546b9cb1a 776 updates/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
b46032a780b176297f123aa7f361f947 1386 updates/binary-armel/Packages
53522a0928a8cdfb89a1534933d681ca 861 updates/binary-armel/Packages.bz2
067891c889915de3affd46684a1942f7 779 updates/binary-armel/Packages.gz
8ae7de6c2061c32684b3c8a8534fb535 661 updates/binary-armhf/Packages
378b7c314aa748ca38a94d6b3c5c2465 511 updates/binary-armhf/Packages.bz2
8e6ed53b3dcbdb8d7f88993c47240cec 465 updates/binary-armhf/Packages.gz
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 0 updates/source/Sources
4059d198768f9f8dc9372dc1c54bc3c3 14 updates/source/Sources.bz2
d0920e3d745d48e04b949746e2d364ed 28 updates/source/Sources.gz
But the problem isn't just that Release is missing. Everything in the repo is either missing or has permissions set to prevent downloads.
While I do have a mirror of the 6.10.x repos, I didn't realise that dev existed until I looked into your question on build-essentials. So I never included that in my mirror.
Anyway, I have requested that Netgear put the repo back (or maybe put it into github), but I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if anything comes of that.
Thanks for putting in that request. It baffles me a bit that Netgear has gone to such lengths to completely deprecate this machine this way. But anyway, yea, if they would at least put it up on GitHub without promising any support. I think some people will keep using these in whatever capacity they can for years to come and they ought to be able to.
Stefan (RNXtras) has some repos of some kind he has left up, do any of these looks like relevant mirrors?
https://repos.rnxtras.com/debian/
Maybe I would need to roll back to 6.10.8?
Maybe I would need to roll back to 6.10.8?
All of the apt.readynas.com repos have this problem, so rolling back will not help.
Stefan (RNXtras) has some repos of some kind he has left up, do any of these looks like relevant mirrors?
They look like his packages, I don't think he is redistributing any Netgear libraries.
Hey Stephen is there any chance I can try your mirror to 6.10.9 repos to see if apt will install build-essential?
I have my readynas back up mostly, but the one thing that would really get it back to where it was before would be to also have Medusa running, which requires newer Python3, which requires build-essential to build it myself. I had all this working fine before, but now since the Netgear repo is down...I can't install build-essential, I guess it depends on something like libc6-dev from netgear, or something; and that majorly cripples what can be done rolling forward for anyone starting from a factory reset.
sudo apt-get install build-essentialReading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: build-essential : Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or libc-dev Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.9.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.Hey Stephen is there any chance I can try your mirror to 6.10.9 repos to see if apt will install build-essential?
Not sure how best to do that, since my NAS is not open to the internet. The repo mirror for 6.10.9 is about 6 GB, but the overall mirror (which includes the Debian Jessie Archives) is about 320GB.
if you're willing to zip up the 6gb with instructions for how I can unzip it here and use it locally. I can find a place for you to transfer it, .it would be worth it to try, I don't think I need the Debian jessie archive...I should have that from SandShark's instructions for how to use it now...and it has been working fine.
It's just build-essential which appears to depend on some stuff from Netgear, that I really need. Not being able to install build-essentially really just cuts these machines off at the knees.
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