On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 00:39 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Craig White wrote: > >> The F9 repos were recently (in the past week) updated to use sha256 > >> hashes for the repodata. It's possible that this has caused the > >> problem, though I am fairly certain that updating from a clean F9 > >> install was tested before the new hashes were pushed out. > > ---- > > I would tend to doubt that. I was pretty much dead in the water with > > a system that was setup last August and I updated to updates.newkey > > and after that, Fedora 9 might as well have been EOL because I > > couldn't update it. I did download and install yum from F10 and it's > > updating as I write this but most people are never gonna be able to > > do that. > > That's certainly not good. It's not something I tested or had > anything to do with. I only mentioned the possibility that it might > be the root of the problem the OP was having as I had seen the change > being discussed on IRC a week or so ago. I am fairly sure that the > scenario of a clean F9 install and update was tested, but even so, it > could easily have missed some ways that things could break. > > I did a quick bugzilla search and didn't find any bugs on this. > Either my bugzilla search was off or there aren't a ton of people > running into this. Hopefully it gets reported so that it can be > fixed. > > I can't help but wonder if it requires some unlucky timing to hit? > Otherwise I would think the list would have a lot more folks > complaining that their Fedora 9 boxes have stopped updating. :/ ---- it cannot be fixed except by updating yum via an rpm command manually since if your version of yum is incapable of reading the hashed info, you are toast. This is a premature EOL for Fedora 9, at least those who haven't updated in quite a while. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
