GPG with up2date is driving me nuts

[Guy Fraser]

Up2date couldn't even get bash2, for me.

After 5 attempts I am just downloading all the rpms from the update 
site. :-(

I didn't get any errors, up2date whould just stop downloading after a 
few hundred packets.



Fritz Whittington wrote:

> On or about 2003-12-24 12:05, Benjamin J. Weiss whipped out a trusty 
> #2 pencil and scribbled:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, William Hooper wrote:
>>
>>> Alik Widge  said:
>>>
>>>> For the record, I've got the same thing driving me nuts, and I do 
>>>> have the
>>>> fedora-release-1 RPM installed. Most of my packages are installing 
>>>> OK, but
>>>> a few (mozilla, f'rinstance) still are reported with bad signatures by
>>>> up2date.
>>>
>>> GPG errors could also indicate truncated downloads.  Your example of
>>> Mozilla is a large package.  Try using a mirror.
>>
>> I'm surprised that a tool as mature as up2date doesn't know how to 
>> handle an interrupted download more cleanly than that.
>
> I'm no longer surprised (because I've had it happen to me so often), 
> but I am apalled that it behaves so badly in this regard.  I got to 
> the point of starting up2date just to get a list of the rpms it 
> wanted, then using WS-FTP Pro to go collect them all from a mirror 
> site, placing them in the up2date spool file.   Then you can let 
> up2date continue and it will find them already downloaded and install 
> them.