Unable to update/upgrade Fedora-16 due to yum Transaction error

[Reindl Harald]

Am 27.01.2012 17:28, schrieb Kevin Martin:
> yum clean all and yum upgrade will solve some problems, but certainly not 99% of them.  For example, I *am* a
> tester of rawhide and have been fighting a battle with the x11 updates.  I finally removed about 25 x11 packages
> that I determined weren't necessary on my system, ran the yum update, and finally was able to get my x11 updated. 
> yum clean all would not have done *anything* to correct that issue. 

this is a totally different topic

> And yes, I'm well aware of what the gpgchecking does

but you do still not understand it
proved by "sometimes the gpg keys aren't available or are screwed up"

> and why it should not be disabled.  However, being able to
> disable it is there for a reason and he was trying to update a package from a repository that he knows and,
> presumably, trusts.  

so tell him "yum --nogpgcheck upgrade" because this is temporary, tell
people disable it per option will mostly result in permanently disabled

> And sometimes the gpg keys aren't available or are screwed up

and THAT should be a alarm signal and NOT SOLVED by disable
the check because this may happen because you hit a compromised
mirror or your dns-server was compromised

so take a breath and think what disable the check would make for damage!

after that think again for what reason the checks are there
exactly to prevent from damage in such cases


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