[Fwd: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status]
Tony Molloy
tony.molloy at ul.ie
Sun Sep 7 09:05:49 UTC 2008
On Sunday 07 September 2008 09:46:04 Ed Greshko wrote:
> Tony Molloy wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 September 2008 09:23:16 Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> 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
> >>>>> $arch.newkey, and it doesn't make any difference. *Where* exactly
> >>>>> should the changes be made? I modified the fedora.repo and
> >>>>> fedora-updates.repo files, with no change. Thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -David Chipman
> >>>>
> >>>> In the fedora-updates repo change the baseurl to:
> >>>>
> >>>> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$re
> >>>>le asev 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?
> >>
> >> Do you think that waiting for the official announcement and procedure
> >> from the Fedora Project is a good/valid idea? Do you think that
> >> following unofficial advice and procedures may result in a
> >> mis-configured system that may need more attention later? Would that be
> >> acceptable?
> >
> > In my case there's a reason for doing the update and as I said I'm doing
> > it on a TEST laptop to check it out first.
> >
> > I've just installed Fedora-9 on approx two hundred workstations last week
> > and will have several hundred students back tomorrow. So I was hoping to
> > get the update done today and not to have to do it during semester.
>
> Well, for your sake, I certainly hope that there are no security related
> kernel updates issued after the semester begins...otherwise you may be
> compelled to update those two hundred workstations again anyway. :-)
>
>
That's a problem I know ;-(
We tried automatic updates a few years ago in one lab and were cought by the
famous X11 bug. So 40 Dell workstations wouldn't boot into X on a monday
morning. Not a very nice wat to start your week ;-)
So these days we re-install the machines twice a year before the start of each
semester. These are on a private network and are pretty much tied down for
undergraduate use only.
Tony
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