NM key hassle

[Bill Davidsen]

Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:21:22PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>> 	Trying to update my wife's F10 machine, I got a failure with the 
>> message :
>>
>> Public key for NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0.99-3.fc10.x86_64.rpm is not 
>> installed
>>
>> 	So I deleted NM and whatever-all else I had to, till yum update 
>> completed normally. Then I told yum to install whatever-all back. It 
>> tried seven, got six, and then hit that same message again. (I had 
>> actually removed ten or twelve; I'll go add them back in and try again.)
>>
>> 	Why does yum not just ask me if I want to install this key??
> 
> As I pointed out in an earlier thread, there was a bug on the package
> update system.  The problem should be resolved shortly.
> 
> You don't have to delete the package, though; you could do this:
> 
> yum --exclude=NetworkManager\* update
> 
I think once it's been deleted there may be a dependency issue to get it back 
in. I tried to just make it go away in FC9 and something complained, don't 
remember what.

In any case a useful thought, thanks.

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