On Tuesday 09 September 2008 18:29:33 Jesse Keating wrote: > We're quite close to releasing the transition fedora-release package to > bring users of Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 to the new updates location with > the new key. However we're seeing some mixed results in our limited > testing and thus we'd like to open it for a wider testing audience. > > In particular we're looking for users of PackageKit on Fedora 9 to test > this, as our yum and pirut results have been pretty rock solid. > > To test, you will need to modify your fedora-updates.repo file in the > [updates] section, comment out the mirrorlist url, uncomment the baseurl > line and make the line read: > > baseurl=http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/updates/f$releasever-updates >.jktest/$basearch/ > > (note, if you have updates-testing enabled, you should disable it during > this test) > > Save the file and initiate an update with PackageKit (System -> > Administration -> Update System) > > This should show you 5 or so updates: > fedora-release > PackageKit-* > unique > gnome-packagekit > > Once these updates are installed, you'll have a new set of .repo files, > fedora-updates(-testing)-newkey.repo. These repo files will be pointing > you to mirror manager to find mirrors that have all the newly resigned > updates as well as some new updates you haven't seen before. PackageKit > should automatically notice these updates a few minutes after installing > the previously mentioned 5 or so updates, and prompt you to install the > rest of them. > > This is where things get dicey. Once PackageKit downloads all your > updates, you'll be prompted to import a new key (see > https://fedoraproject.org/keys for currently used keys). After clicking > yes to import the key (after you verified it) the PackageKit dialog will > disappear while it does the import, and it should come back, or at least > the panel icon will come back to indicate that it is trying once again > to install your updates. The update installation /should/ succeed, > that's what we're looking for. > > You can monitor all of this activity with 'pkmon' on the terminal, which > is a good idea because if it fails for you in some way, the output from > pkmon during the failure will be important to resolving the issue. > > Please keep good notes if you experience failures and capture > screenshots. > > Known problems resemble something like > http://togami.com/~warren/temp/policykit-error.png or > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461553 > > Thanks everybody for the testing! I've sucessfully updated a desktop running Fedora-9 using yum and my local mirror. I edited the new repo files to point to my local mirror. The only problem I had was that I had to remove the kde-l10n packages before the update as I was getting file conflicts ( for the Arabic package at least and possibly some more ) I also had a problem updating yum, a dependancy problem but that was just because my upstream mirror hadn't fully synced yes. Now to upgrade all 250 others ;-( Thanks for all the hard work ;-) Tony -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
