On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx> 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. > > Tony Sounds like a good reason to me. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
