Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx> wrote: > >> On Sunday 07 September 2008 09:23:16 Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> >>>> On Sunday 07 September 2008, Tony Molloy wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sunday 07 September 2008 07:49:18 David C. Chipman wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:03:08 -0500 >>>>>> >>>>>> Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Replace $arch with $arch.newkey to get to the new updates and >>>>>>> updates-testing trees. I haven't seen an update to the release trees >>>>>>> show up yet. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Bruno, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm trying to take your advice about changing $arch to >>>>>> $arch.newkey, and it doesn't make any difference. *Where* exactly >>>>>> should the changes be made? I modified the fedora.repo and >>>>>> fedora-updates.repo files, with no change. Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> -David Chipman >>>>>> >>>>> In the fedora-updates repo change the baseurl to: >>>>> >>>>> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$rele >>>>> asev er/ i386.newkey >>>>> >>>>> Please use a mirror rather than download.fedora >>>>> >>>> I couldn't make a mirror even try to work, so I made it as above, then >>>> chose only the yum-keys file, but it refuses to install using yumex. >>>> 04:01:15 : Error checking package signatures: >>>> Public key for yum-keys-1.1.15-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is not installed >>>> >>>> Advice? >>>> >>> Do you think that waiting for the official announcement and procedure >>> from the Fedora Project is a good/valid idea? Do you think that >>> following unofficial advice and procedures may result in a >>> mis-configured system that may need more attention later? Would that be >>> acceptable? >>> >>> >> In my case there's a reason for doing the update and as I said I'm doing it on >> a TEST laptop to check it out first. >> >> I've just installed Fedora-9 on approx two hundred workstations last week and >> will have several hundred students back tomorrow. So I was hoping to get the >> update done today and not to have to do it during semester. >> >> Tony >> > > Sounds like a good reason to me. > I'm sure Tony feels a whole lot better now that someone has validated in reasoning. :-) FWIW, I can talk myself into doing just about anything...and it sounds good at the time. Like the time that I talked myself into continuing through an intersection on my bicycle because I was convinced the guy on the motor scooter would see me and yield the right of way. Granted it was a hasty decision...yet it did not turn out well for me in the end. :-( -- A political man can have as his aim the realization of freedom, but he has no means to realize it other than through violence. -- Jean Paul Sartre -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
