Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled

ANOOP anoop.chargotra at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 13:40:22 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 23:34 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> In a few hours, updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 will start hitting
>> mirrors.  These updates are designed to transition users from our old
>> repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with
>> a new set of keys.
>>
>> Most users will simply need to apply the offered updates, and later
>> apply any further updates, and verify/import the new GPG key.
>>
>> The process to getting new updates is two stage.
>>
>> Stage 1) Users configured to get updates from existing repos will see a
>> small set of updates available in the next few hours/days.  These
>> updates include fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique
>> (for Fedora 8, only fedora-release is offered).  These updates should be
>> applied as soon as possible.
>>
>> Stage 2) Once the above updates have been applied, your update tools
>> (yum, PackageKit, pirut) will see a new repository and a larger set of
>> updates available.  This is your new standard flow of updates, that will
>> continue to see new updates as the lifetime of Fedora 8 and 9 progress.
>>
>> There will be further milestones in the future that involve redirection
>> of release package repos to match that of updates, and removing of old
>> gpg key from rpm trust.
>>
>> For more details and an FAQ, please see
>> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Enabling_new_signing_key
> I can't make this work. No matter what I do there is a missing
> dependency reported for yum-utils of yum >= 3.2.19. My yum is 3.2.17.1.
> How do we fix this?
I also got the same issue. But I am updating other packages using
=> yum --skip-broken update

Thanks,
Anoop

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