Re: Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

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On 01/27/2012 10:42 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 27.01.2012 17:28, schrieb Kevin Martin:
yum clean all and yum upgrade will solve some problems, but certainly not 99% of them.  For example, I *am* a
tester of rawhide and have been fighting a battle with the x11 updates.  I finally removed about 25 x11 packages
that I determined weren't necessary on my system, ran the yum update, and finally was able to get my x11 updated. 
yum clean all would not have done *anything* to correct that issue. 
this is a totally different topic

And yes, I'm well aware of what the gpgchecking does
but you do still not understand it
proved by "sometimes the gpg keys aren't available or are screwed up"

and why it should not be disabled.  However, being able to
disable it is there for a reason and he was trying to update a package from a repository that he knows and,
presumably, trusts.  
so tell him "yum --nogpgcheck upgrade" because this is temporary, tell
people disable it per option will mostly result in permanently disabled

And sometimes the gpg keys aren't available or are screwed up
and THAT should be a alarm signal and NOT SOLVED by disable
the check because this may happen because you hit a compromised
mirror or your dns-server was compromised

so take a breath and think what disable the check would make for damage!

after that think again for what reason the checks are there
exactly to prevent from damage in such cases




So my last comment on this is that clicking on "no GPG check" in yumex, at least in my experience, does not make that a permanent option.  If you need/want to turn it off it needs to be done each time.

Kevin
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