How to install debian jessie-backports package after package removal using Docker?

Question

The problem

I'm trying to use jessie-backports in a docker repository for a Ruby on Rails project using this Dockerfile:

FROM ruby:2.4.1
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN true

RUN echo 'alias ll="ls --color=auto -l"' >> ~/.bashrc
RUN apt-get remove -y python
RUN apt-get update --fix-missing
RUN apt-get -y upgrade

RUN echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y certbot -t jessie-backports

However when I attempted to build the docker image. the following error popped up in the middle of the installation:

E: Release file for http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-backports/InRelease is expired (invalid since 77d 3h 49min 17s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

As of March 27 Lucas Nussbaum wrote in this blogpost that jessie-updates and jessie-backports were going to be removed from Debian mirrors. The blog post I mentioned stated that what I needed to do was replace:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

With this other commands:

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free
echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until no;' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99no-check-valid-until

So I changed the commands as follows:

FROM ruby:2.4.1
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN true

RUN echo 'alias ll="ls --color=auto -l"' >> ~/.bashrc
RUN apt-get remove -y python
RUN apt-get update --fix-missing
RUN apt-get -y upgrade

RUN echo "deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until no;' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99no-check-valid-until
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y certbot -t jessie-backports

However the same issue is still present.

I also attempted to move the commands before any apt command like this:

FROM ruby:2.4.1
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN true

RUN echo 'alias ll="ls --color=auto -l"' >> ~/.bashrc

RUN echo "deb http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib non-free" > /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until no;' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99no-check-valid-until
RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get remove -y python
RUN apt-get update --fix-missing
RUN apt-get -y upgrade
RUN apt-get install -y certbot -t jessie-backports

What error do you get with the last variant? It works for me, as-is (although I’d change the jessie-backports line to use >> instead of >). — Stephen Kitt, May 09 '19 at 11:58

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 09 '19 at 18:55

To solve the issue I needed to pull all of the Debian main repository, for certbot to be installed correctly.

FROM ruby:2.4.1
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
ENV DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN true

RUN echo 'alias ll="ls --color=auto -l"' >> ~/.bashrc

RUN echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie main" > /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN apt-get update

RUN apt-get remove -y python
RUN apt-get update --fix-missing
RUN apt-get -y upgrade

# Let's Encrypt (SSL CERTIFICATES)
RUN echo "deb [check-valid-until=no] http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until no;' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99no-check-valid-until
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y certbot -t jessie-backports

How to install debian jessie-backports package after package removal using Docker?

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