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

[Kevin Martin]

On 01/27/2012 10:42 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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> 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
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>> 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"
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>> 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
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>> 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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So my last comment on this is that clicking on "no GPG check" in yumex, at least in my experience, does not make that a permanent
option.  If you need/want to turn it off it needs to be done each time.

Kevin
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