Need help testing updates transition for 8 and 9

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 09 September 2008 18:29:33 Jesse Keating wrote:
> We're quite close to releasing the transition fedora-release package to
> bring users of Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 to the new updates location with
> the new key.  However we're seeing some mixed results in our limited
> testing and thus we'd like to open it for a wider testing audience.
>
> In particular we're looking for users of PackageKit on Fedora 9 to test
> this, as our yum and pirut results have been pretty rock solid.
>
> To test, you will need to modify your fedora-updates.repo file in the
> [updates] section, comment out the mirrorlist url, uncomment the baseurl
> line and make the line read:
>
> baseurl=http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/mash/updates/f$releasever-updates
>.jktest/$basearch/
>
> (note, if you have updates-testing enabled, you should disable it during
> this test)
>
> Save the file and initiate an update with PackageKit (System ->
> Administration -> Update System)
>
> This should show you 5 or so updates:
>   fedora-release
>   PackageKit-*
>   unique
>   gnome-packagekit
>
> Once these updates are installed, you'll have a new set of .repo files,
> fedora-updates(-testing)-newkey.repo.  These repo files will be pointing
> you to mirror manager to find mirrors that have all the newly resigned
> updates as well as some new updates you haven't seen before.  PackageKit
> should automatically notice these updates a few minutes after installing
> the previously mentioned 5 or so updates, and prompt you to install the
> rest of them.
>
> This is where things get dicey.  Once PackageKit downloads all your
> updates, you'll be prompted to import a new key (see
> https://fedoraproject.org/keys for currently used keys).  After clicking
> yes to import the key (after you verified it) the PackageKit dialog will
> disappear while it does the import, and it should come back, or at least
> the panel icon will come back to indicate that it is trying once again
> to install your updates.  The update installation /should/ succeed,
> that's what we're looking for.
>
> You can monitor all of this activity with 'pkmon' on the terminal, which
> is a good idea because if it fails for you in some way, the output from
> pkmon during the failure will be important to resolving the issue.
>
> Please keep good notes if you experience failures and capture
> screenshots.
>
> Known problems resemble something like
> http://togami.com/~warren/temp/policykit-error.png or
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461553
>
> Thanks everybody for the testing!


Imported the key OK and began the update. Then got a file conflict error

Test Transaction Errors:   file /usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kcmlilo.mo 
from install of kde-i18n-Arabic-3.5.9-8.fc9.noarch conflicts with file from 
package kde-l10n-Arabic-4.0.5-1.fc9.noarch


pkmon output
Tasks:
/13_aabebada_data	update-system:wait 
Tasks:
/13_aabebada_data	update-system:running 
Tasks:
/13_aabebada_data	update-system:dep-resolve 
Tasks:
/13_aabebada_data	update-system:download 
Tasks:
/13_aabebada_data	update-system:sig-check 
locked
Tasks:
/13_aabebada_data	update-system:test-commit 
Tasks:
/13_aabebada_data	update-system:finished 
unlocked
Tasks:
[none]...


Tony