[Fwd: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status]

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 07 September 2008, Tony Molloy wrote:
>On Sunday 07 September 2008 07:49:18 David C. Chipman wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 14:03:08 -0500
>>
>> Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>> > Replace $arch with $arch.newkey to get to the new updates and
>> > updates-testing trees. I haven't seen an update to the release trees
>> > show up yet.
>>
>> 	Hi Bruno,
>>
>> 		I'm trying to take your advice about changing $arch to
>> $arch.newkey, and it doesn't make any difference. *Where* exactly
>> should the changes be made? I modified the fedora.repo and
>> fedora-updates.repo files, with no change. Thanks,
>>
>> 			-David Chipman
>
>In the fedora-updates repo change the baseurl to:
>
>baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$releasev
>er/ i386.newkey
>
>Please use a mirror rather than download.fedora

I couldn't make a mirror even try to work, so I made it as above, then chose 
only the yum-keys file, but it refuses to install using yumex.
04:01:15 : Error checking package signatures:
Public key for yum-keys-1.1.15-1.fc8.noarch.rpm is not installed

Advice?

Thanks.

>I'm currently doing an update on a test laptop and the download size is
> 1.2Gb
>
>Tony



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