URGENT Re: Package kit traceback with new keys

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Sat Sep 6 07:21:16 UTC 2008


Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
>> We cannot push any Fedora Updates until PK is fixed.
> 
> I built PackageKit and gnome-packagekit 0.3.1 for F-9 and it was able
> to import the new key and update my system.  I'll leave it up to y'all
> whether it's a good idea to update PackageKit to 0.3.1 in F-9 to get
> the GPG key import working.
> 

The key question is: What is the greater risk?

1) Upgrade PackageKit and trust that it works.  Keep in mind that this 
key import function is really poorly tested at this point.

2) Write some horrible hack so fedora-release imports the new key itself 
after %post when rpmdb is unlocked.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com


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