Re: [Fwd: Fedora 8 and 9 updates status]

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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.

Tony




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