Up2date

[Felix Miata]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> 
> At 00:53 3/7/2004, you wrote:
> >After trying all day to get my fresh install of fedora upgraded, I have
> >finally locally downloaded all the updates.  How do I configure up2date to go
> >to my local server and retreive them?
> 
> up2date downloads packages to /var/spool/up2date in order to install them.
> If you download a package and put it in that directory, then up2date will
> see that it's there, check if the download is OK, then install it without
> making another attempt to download it.

Doesn't work for me. I spent hours downloading packages in KDE "Red Hat
Network" updates. After it was apparently done downloading, I hit the
continue button & got nothing but an hourglass that wouldn't quit. So, I
X'd that out and went to command line, found /var/spool/up2date full of
packages, and tried 'rpm --update up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm', which
returned:
error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
error: up2date-4.1.21-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed

I went back to X and restarted Red Hat Network. Again as before I got an
alert: "Your GPG keying does not contain the Red Hat, Inc. public key.
Without it, you will be unable to verify that packages Update Agent
downloads are securely signed by Red Hat. Your Update Agent options
specify that you want to use GPG. Install Key?" I clicked yes,
highlighted updates-released, forward, select all packages. I'm still
waiting for something to happen with the solving inter-dependencies
progress dialog 20 hours later.
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