[Fwd: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status]

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy at ul.ie> 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.
>
> Tony

Sounds like a good reason to me.


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