Re: [Fwd: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status]

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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


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