On Sunday 07 September 2008 09:53:35 Ed Greshko wrote: > 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 > >>>>>> $arch.newkey, and it doesn't make any difference. *Where* exactly > >>>>>> should the changes be made? I modified the fedora.repo and > >>>>>> fedora-updates.repo files, with no change. Thanks, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -David Chipman > >>>>> > >>>>> In the fedora-updates repo change the baseurl to: > >>>>> > >>>>> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$r > >>>>>ele 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. :-) Well not quite!! Download completed but install failed ;-( The public key not is not available. So it's looking for the new key as expected and it's not there. I disabled the gpgcheck in fedora-updates-repo ( which I wouldn't recommend on any machine , this is a TEST box ) and it's installing now. Tony > > 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
