Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 10 17:52:26 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:42 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 September 2008 14:30:27 Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 23:34 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > In a few hours, updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 will start hitting
> > > mirrors.  These updates are designed to transition users from our old
> > > repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with
> > > a new set of keys.
> > >
> > > Most users will simply need to apply the offered updates, and later
> > > apply any further updates, and verify/import the new GPG key.
> > >
> > > The process to getting new updates is two stage.
> > >
> > > Stage 1) Users configured to get updates from existing repos will see a
> > > small set of updates available in the next few hours/days.  These
> > > updates include fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique
> > > (for Fedora 8, only fedora-release is offered).  These updates should be
> > > applied as soon as possible.
> > >
> > > Stage 2) Once the above updates have been applied, your update tools
> > > (yum, PackageKit, pirut) will see a new repository and a larger set of
> > > updates available.  This is your new standard flow of updates, that will
> > > continue to see new updates as the lifetime of Fedora 8 and 9 progress.
> > >
> > > There will be further milestones in the future that involve redirection
> > > of release package repos to match that of updates, and removing of old
> > > gpg key from rpm trust.
> > >
> > > For more details and an FAQ, please see
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Enabling_new_signing_key
> >
> > I can't make this work. No matter what I do there is a missing
> > dependency reported for yum-utils of yum >= 3.2.19. My yum is 3.2.17.1.
> > How do we fix this?
> > --
> 
> Lots of people are seeing this, probably a dependancy that has not made it to 
> the mirrors for some reason.
> 
> Just do 
> 
> #  yum --exclude=yum\* update
> 
> until the dependancy is availble.

Just to be more precise and avoid any possible problems, the command on
the page now says:

# yum --exclude yum --excluce yum-utils update

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Paul W. Frields
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