New Key Discussion

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Aug 26 18:06:07 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
>> Josh suggested doing releases in whole, IE do all the F8 content, then
>> all the F9 content.  That could make it go a bit faster and not leave
>> any users with mixed bags of signed content.
>>
>> I'm only guessing on the 3 weeks thing, it could go faster, if I get
>> clever with expect (but then I think the passphrase sits somewhere in
>> the process list or memory or something, I'm not exactly comfortable
>> with that).
> 
> It should be doable piecemeal, correct - there's no reason we have to
> push them until all of a particular release is done?

Piecemeal would be less sudden load on the mirrors to sync.

The caching proxy problem however will be equally bad no matter how we 
stage the resigned packages.

Warren


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