jessie-backports

General support for the Pi-Star System
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ae4ml
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jessie-backports

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Hi,

I have seen this in the forum without a resolution, I have three of these that are showing the same thing when I run updates.
What is the fix ?

When a sudo apt update / sudo apt dist-upgrade combo is launched at the command prompt several distro sources referred to do not exist:

Err http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-backports/main armhf Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-backports/contrib armhf Packages
404 Not Found
Err http://httpredir.debian.org jessie-backports/non-free armhf Packages
404 Not Found
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Re: jessie-backports

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There is no fix, Jessie is slowly going out of use, I'm putting my time into prepping V4.1 currently, the solution will be to move to that release.
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Re: jessie-backports

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It appears that Backport was just a testing area and was removed.
the thing to do is

rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list
apt-get update

all is well.
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Re: jessie-backports

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"backports" are software / updates released in a later version, and back-ported to (jessie in this case) - specifically I used the USBModeswitch from back ports at least.
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Re: jessie-backports

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Do you need any help working through upgrade to Debian 10 Buster or similar?
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