When the floodgates open ...

[Steve Repo]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 15:25 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 17:02 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 11:53 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote:
>> > > When updates resume, would anything show up in package kit and how would
>> > > your sort of non geeky/technical user fix the problem- would this
>> > > involve updating mirrors by hand in a file?
>> > > *Travis Arnold*
>> > > Email: tarnold01 at gmail.com <mailto:tarnold01 at gmail.com>
>> >
>> > No hand-jobs.
>> >
>> > New fedora-release*
>> > New fedora-release-notes*
>> >
>> > which will point to new updates.
>> >
>> > Frank
>> What does the answer above mean? Will yum update work, or not?
>> --
>
> About as much as apt-get
>


Typical Fedora cryptic answer.

Well, as far as I understand,  when the updates are available, "yum
update" should fetch new fedora-release RPM with the new key. This
will automatically install the new key and allow newer updates to
flow.

So, technically, a "yum update" should work.

Steve