Fedora 8 and 9 updates re-enabled

[Dave Feustel]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:30:27AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 23:34 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > In a few hours, updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 will start hitting
> > mirrors.  These updates are designed to transition users from our old
> > repo locations to new locations that have all our updates re-signed with
> > a new set of keys.  
> > 
> > Most users will simply need to apply the offered updates, and later
> > apply any further updates, and verify/import the new GPG key.
> > 
> > The process to getting new updates is two stage.
> > 
> > Stage 1) Users configured to get updates from existing repos will see a
> > small set of updates available in the next few hours/days.  These
> > updates include fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and unique
> > (for Fedora 8, only fedora-release is offered).  These updates should be
> > applied as soon as possible.
> > 
> > Stage 2) Once the above updates have been applied, your update tools
> > (yum, PackageKit, pirut) will see a new repository and a larger set of
> > updates available.  This is your new standard flow of updates, that will
> > continue to see new updates as the lifetime of Fedora 8 and 9 progress.
> > 
> > There will be further milestones in the future that involve redirection
> > of release package repos to match that of updates, and removing of old
> > gpg key from rpm trust.
> > 
> > For more details and an FAQ, please see
> > https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Enabling_new_signing_key
> I can't make this work. No matter what I do there is a missing
> dependency reported for yum-utils of yum >= 3.2.19. My yum is 3.2.17.1.
> How do we fix this?

I am getting a continuous barrage of update messages and accompanying
update failure messages. Are the failed update attempts repeated until
they succeed, or will the popups eventually stop?