Beware: External repos can break key transition
Harald Hoyer
harald at redhat.com
Fri Sep 12 08:06:36 UTC 2008
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 11.09.2008 20:36, Callum Lerwick wrote:
>> $ sudo yum update
>> Loaded plugins: fedorakmod, refresh-packagekit
>> [...]
>> So, an update in the Repo That Can Not Be Named, depends on an update in
>> the updates-newkey repo, not yet available,
>
> Just to set things straight: it's available for about 36 hours now afaics:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00385.html
>
>
> The xine-lib-extras-nonfree package hit the livna repo about half a hour
> later.
>
>> thus breaking the transaction due to yum's pedantry.
>>
>> Something to be aware of if you have non-technical users using Livna,
>> and you didn't think you needed the skip-broken plugin...
>
> That is a well known problem; I put it up for broader discussion how to
> best fix it and described the root of the problem in details about one
> month ago:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-August/msg00041.html
>
> I'm all for solving that problem, but that afaics should happen on the
> yum level and thus in Fedora and not in Livna/RPM Fusion. Seems
> skip-broken is the best answer, but that's not enabled by default in
> Fedora. Livna/RPM Fusion could fix that via its release-packages, but
> that's not nice and I want to avoid going that route.
>
> CU
> knurd
>
Such things trouble/scare common end-users a lot. There should be a "More
Information" button in PackageKit dialogs, which explains the situation and that
this might only just take some days to resolve.
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