Need help testing updates transition for 8 and 9

[Rahul Sundaram]

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.

Works fine.

Rahul