On Sunday 07 September 2008 09:46:04 Ed Greshko wrote: > Tony Molloy 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 > >>>>> $arch.newkey, and it doesn't make any difference. *Where* exactly > >>>>> should the changes be made? I modified the fedora.repo and > >>>>> fedora-updates.repo files, with no change. Thanks, > >>>>> > >>>>> -David Chipman > >>>> > >>>> In the fedora-updates repo change the baseurl to: > >>>> > >>>> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$re > >>>>le 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. > > Well, for your sake, I certainly hope that there are no security related > kernel updates issued after the semester begins...otherwise you may be > compelled to update those two hundred workstations again anyway. :-) > > That's a problem I know ;-( We tried automatic updates a few years ago in one lab and were cought by the famous X11 bug. So 40 Dell workstations wouldn't boot into X on a monday morning. Not a very nice wat to start your week ;-) So these days we re-install the machines twice a year before the start of each semester. These are on a private network and are pretty much tied down for undergraduate use only. Tony > -- > Calculon: An Oscar, you say? That would get me out of this festering > rats' nest called television once and for all. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
