Fedora 8 and 9 updates status

[Jon Ciesla]

> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:09 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Announcements regarding the location
>> of said document and how to help with content will be coming shortly.
>
> Time for another update on the F8 and F9 updates status.
>
> Our testing with the live update content as gone well.  We identified a
> couple issues with the current PackageKit and thanks to Richard Hughes
> we'll have an updated PackageKit to offer as well as an updated
> fedora-release package for our users.  The combination of the two (or
> just the fedora-release package for you non-packagekit users) will be
> all that you will need in order to gain access to our newly signed and
> relocated updates.
>
> We're in the final stages of testing a few corner cases, and preparing
> the official builds of fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and
> unique (needed as a new dep for gnome-packagekit).  All existing updates
> in the old update locations will be purged, and just these updates will
> be put in their place, signed with our old key.  Once you've updated to
> these packages, the next update attempt will point you to our new
> locations with our new keys and you should be able to process any
> further pending updates.  You'll be prompted to import the new key along
> the way.
>
> A wiki page has been created that covers some of this,
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key and will be
> updated throughout the day as we finish the above listed tasks.  A more
> formal announcement along with links to the official FAQ will be
> published to same lists this mail is going out to, and likely picked up
> by various news sites.  We expect things to wrap up by the end of today
> or early tomorrow.
>
> Once again we thank you for your continued patience and be aware that
> we're nearly there!

Given that some updates are already on mirrors, is there a trusted place
from which we may obtain the new key to import?

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