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Has there be in recent time (mor exactly on 4 oct 2015) a change to the structure of the elementary OS repository in ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/ changing URL pattern from .../freya/... to .../trusty/...?

Update: Meanwhile I got so much frustrated with trying to fix problems with elementary OS that I made a totally new install and still did run into the problem with broken update links for ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/freya/... so I edited elementary.list and patches.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ into the .../trusty/... pattern. Result: No more errors on apt-get update and apt-get distro-upgrade but after restarting I do not get the elementary "e" logo on booting the system. I do not know if this is only a cosmetic problem or if it is a symptom that I lost something important from elementary OS. The desktop still looks and feels like elementary OS.

Background of my question:

I installed this week elementary Os from a fresh download of the live-version named elementaryos-stable-0.3.1-amd64.20150903.iso and run into problems with apt-get update giving me " 404 Not Found" error messages on fetching data from URLs like http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/freya/main/binary-amd64/Packages . Entering that URL into a Browser the site does not exist. What I found was a working URL: http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages

Looking further into the repository I found two new folders in http: ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/stable/ubuntu/dists/ created on 4 Oct 2015: "devel" and "trusty". Now I wonder if the repository structure has been changed from hard-coding the elementary OS distribution-version code-names like "luna", "freya",... into one fix name for the next version development trunk (devel) and a trunk with the code-name of the ubuntu LTS-version on that the current stable elementary-os version is based on (trusty). (Maybe this makes it easier to install elementary as Desktop Environment on top of an existing Ubuntu installation.)

That could explain why the current elementary-distro 0.3.1 from 3 sep 2015 does not know about the new URL and fails to update. If so, I could rename the respective URLs in my local /etc/apt/sources.list file from .../freya/... to .../trusty/... and it should work. But as long as I am not shure that I am right on my guess about the change in repository structure I do not want to mess up my elementary OS installation totally by fetching wrong update lists.

You can find more information on my update problem in this question: Software update fails to work

Thanks for any advice Olaf

Note: I could not write all URLs correctly because the forum system allows only for max. of 2 working URls in my posts.

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I have it on good authority from within elementary that no repository should ever contain luna, freya, or loki. If your sources.list ever contained that, they were incorrect, and should be changed to precise, trusty, and wily respectively. As for the changes to the repositories, those are likely unrelated changes to the build structure, and nothing to do with this.

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  • thanks! I already tried the changes and apt-get update/upgrade seems to run smoothly. So it seems to be a bug in the freya 0.3.1 distribution to set the wrong update path in elementary.list and patches.list
    – Olaf
    Commented Nov 20, 2015 at 15:10

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