[Fwd: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status]

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Sep 7 08:46:04 UTC 2008


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
>>>>> $arch.newkey, and it doesn't make any difference. *Where* exactly
>>>>> should the changes be made? I modified the fedora.repo and
>>>>> fedora-updates.repo files, with no change. Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> 			-David Chipman
>>>>>           
>>>> In the fedora-updates repo change the baseurl to:
>>>>
>>>> baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/$rele
>>>> 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.  :-)


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