Fedora 9.1?

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Mon Sep 1 23:21:18 UTC 2008


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> nodata wrote:
>> Am Montag, den 01.09.2008, 16:19 -0400 schrieb Jon Stanley:
>>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Naheem Zaffar <naheemzaffar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Are there any plans for a re-release of Fedora 9 with updated keys?
>>> Not as such, no. The current plan can be found at
>>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-August/001627.html,
>>> with the latest draft of the actual locations over at
>>> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/rel-eng/2008-August/001635.html
>>> and ensuing discussion
>>>
>>> This plan already has FESCo buy-in, with whatever minor tweaks rel-eng
>>> might need to make, but this is the essence of what's going to happen.
>>>
>> "[The new] fedora-release is put into the OLD repo, signed by the OLD
>> key."
>>
>> Isn't this counter-intuitive?
>>
> The idea is that fedora-release contains the new key and the new
> repository location.  So it has to go in the old repository, signed with
> the old key so people hitting the old repository get those.
> 
> Maybe we should have two new fedora-release packages.  The lower NEVR
> one can go in the OLD repo and the newer one in the new repo.  (That way
> we end up with 0 packages signed by the old key on the new system).
> 

That is actually already in the plan as written.

Warren




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