Debian packages for snf-image

[Chris Wilson]

Dear Synnefo developers,

I tried to follow the instructions to install snf-image from Debian pages, but failed because the instructions appear to be incorrect.

I was following this page: https://www.synnefo.org/docs/snf-image/latest/installation.html#installing-snf-image-using-packages

and it says that I should add a line like this to my sources.list file:

deb http://apt.dev.grnet.gr wheezy/

However this does not work because the syntax is invalid (missing dist name):

afnog@ganeti2:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Malformed line 15 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Normally these lines have an extra word at the end. Also I found no way to construct a valid URL because there should be a dists directory in the URL, but there isn't one on this web server. For example, if I use the dist name "main", and ignoring the missing "main" directory in the URL below:

W: Failed to fetch http://apt.dev.grnet.gr/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

You can see that it would fall at the first hurdle because http://apt.dev.grnet.gr/dists does not exist, nor does it exist in any subdirectory that I found, and nor is there a binary-amd64 directory under the jessie directory. So the only way to install these packages is one at a time, by hand.

I hope that this information is useful to you.

Thanks, Chris.