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hpmachining

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2016-11-23

Posts: 42

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Can't restore all packages to specific date because of disabled keys

I am trying to restore to a specific date and can't go back before 2018/10/06. For instance, if I try to go back to 2018/10/05 by changing the mirrorlist file so it only contains

Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/2018/10/05/$repo/os/$arch

then do

sudo pacman -Syyuu

I get the following error

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 dnssec-anchors-20170711-1-any                          3.1 KiB  0.00B/s 00:00 [############################################] 100%
(187/187) checking keys in keyring                                             [############################################] 100%
(187/187) checking package integrity                                           [############################################] 100%
error: dnssec-anchors: key "Gaetan Bisson <gaetan@fenua.org>" is disabled
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/dnssec-anchors-20170711-1-any.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] 
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

The further back I go, the more packages I get with this error.
I don't know how to handle this. Can someone tell me what the proper way is to handle this situation? Thank you.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Can't restore all packages to specific date because of disabled keys

You could always disable signature checking in pacman.conf.

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hpmachining

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2016-11-23

Posts: 42

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Re: Can't restore all packages to specific date because of disabled keys

Thanks. That's what I ended up doing. I also had to ignore one package to go back as far as I wanted because of overwriting files issue. I've not had this problem before, it always just worked, so I wanted to check if there was a preferred way of handling it.