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 > -- > Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines