Fedup troubles

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 06:49:48PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:03:07 -0700, Greg Woods wrote:
> 
> 
> >>
> >>
> >> Downloading failed: Didn't install any keys [root at localhost ~]#
> >>
> >>         Clue, please?
> >>
> >>
> > I never could get the GPG part of the Rpmfusion repo to work with fedup.
> > I ended up using --nogpgcheck (yes I am aware of the risks of doing
> > that) so that I could get fedup to complete. Once I had done the
> > upgrade, I had to manually correct some of the symlinks in
> > /etc/pki/rpm-gpg to get further updates to work properly without
> > --nogpgcheck.
> > 
> > There is a point during the upgrade process where the generic symlink
> > RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-x86_64 has to be changed from pointing to the F20 key
> > to pointing to the F21 key, and this isn't working right. This seems
> > like more of an rpmfusion problem than a Fedora problem. So I ran with
> > --nogpgcheck, then manually fixed the symlink afterwards. My updates
> > work fine now.
> 
> 	That did it : the machine is running F21 now. Many many thanks!
> 
> 	I don't completely understand the caveat, though. I follow the 
> need to fix the symlink, but I don't know how to do it. 
> 
> 	Iiuc, the fault is a bug in Fedora somewhere, which I was lucky 
> enough to hit only on the last machine I fed up; if that's so, there must 
> be more of us -- and, I hope, maybe, a nice clear mini-tutorial already 
> posted somewhere explaining how to accomplish the fix. Anybody know?

I ran into a similar bug.  From the fedup author(s) I understand they
are aware of why this situation happens, and are working on a fix so
it won't occur in future releases.

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