Tony Molloy 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@xxxxxxxx> 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. > > > Well, for your sake, I certainly hope that there are no security related kernel updates issued after the semester begins...otherwise you may be compelled to update those two hundred workstations again anyway. :-) -- Calculon: An Oscar, you say? That would get me out of this festering rats' nest called television once and for all. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
