Getting a working Rawhide installation

[Carl G]

To skip the gpg signing verification from happening, start your yum
transaction using the --nogpgcheck flag or set gpgcheck=0 in
/etc/yum.repo.d/$name since you're using Rawhide anyway ;)

2012/8/8 Amit Saha <amitksaha at fedoraproject.org>

> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Amit Saha <amitksaha at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:40 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >>> > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 15:17 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
> >>> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Adam Williamson <
> awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> >> > On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 14:34 +1000, Amit Saha wrote:
> >>> >> >> Hi all,
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> I want to setup a functional Rawhide installation for some
> testing.
> >>> >> >> What is the recommended approach to get one? The nightly builds
> seem
> >>> >> >> to be failing.
> >>> >> >>
> >>> >> >> I am fine with a fresh install or an upgrade, whichever works.
> >>> >> >
> >>> >> > The standard method is to install F17 and yum distro-sync to
> Rawhide.
> >>> >> > You'll want to make sure you get selinux-policy 3.11.1, earlier
> builds
> >>> >> > apparently break boot. I don't know if there are any other
> showstoppers
> >>> >> > at present. Note, we branch for F18 and start building Alpha TCs
> quite
> >>> >> > soon.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Thanks. I will give it a shot.  And see what happens.
> >>> >
> >>> > For the record, instructions at
> >>> >
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Yum_update_from_previous_release(though actually that says it's not a good method...I disagree, and the
> text seems pretty old). I'd say it boils down to:
> >>> >
> >>> > yum install fedora-release-rawhide
> >>> > (disable F17 repos in the graphical tool, enable Rawhide repo)
> >>> > yum distro-sync
> >>> >
> >>> > and watch the pretty, pretty fireworks...
> >>>
> >>> Tried this last night (on an un-updated F17 install)
> >>>
> >>> # yum install fedora-release-rawhide
> >>> # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide update
> >>>
> >>> It was quite unusable, always ran into rescue mode while boot. Could
> >>> be the SElinux thing you mentioned earlier.
> >>
> >> That sounds pretty likely.
> >>
> >>> I am trying again now.
> >>> Here is what I plan to do:
> >>>
> >>> # yum install fedora-release-rawhide
> >>> # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=rawhide distro-sync
> >>>
> >>> Is that right?
> >>
> >> More or less - I'd say 'yum --releasever=rawhide distro-sync', but
> >> there's really not a huge degree of practical difference between the
> >> three. The difference between 'update' and 'distro-sync' is that
> >> 'distro-sync' will *downgrade* a package if the version in the target
> >> repo is lower than what you currently have installed - so if Rawhide is
> >> behind F17, you'll get the Rawhide package, you won't keep the F17 one.
> >> This is _usually_ what you'd want.
> >>
> >> If your attempt yesterday failed then the slightly different command
> >> won't likely fix it, but if it was the selinux issue you were hitting,
> >> you might find you get the newer selinux-policy package today and things
> >> work better. If not, grab it from Koji. It's easy enough to tell if
> >> you're hitting the selinux issue: just boot with enforcing=0. If that
> >> works, then you know what the problem was =)
> >
> > Okay. Here is what I have done now, I updated to the selinux-policy
> > 3.11 from rawhide repository after installing fedora-rawhide-release.
> > Will do the distrosync now and see.
> >
> >>
> >> For the record, I just substantially reworked/updated the instructions
> >> on the Rawhide page, as they were somewhat antiquated and confused.
> >
> > Great. Thanks. I shall let the list know if I am successful/or not.
>
> The process stops complaining of the bash-4.2.37-3.fc18.i686.rpm is not
> signed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -Amit
>
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Amit
> >
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