Fedora 8 and 9 updates status

[Jesse Keating-3]

As you well know, we have been working hard to get updates for 8 and 9
flowing again, complete with new package signing keys.  Discussion has
been somewhat quiet on this front as we've all had our heads down and
have been working hard toward a solution, one that involves little to no
manual effort on behalf of our users.

Today we've reached a major milestone in this progress.  We have done a
successful compose of all the existing and as of yesterday pending
updates for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9, all signed with our new keys.  These
updates will soon hit mirrors in a new set of directory locations.  What
we don't have quite yet is the updated fedora-release package in the old
updates location that will get you the new keys and the new repo
locations.  The last mile testing of this update requires that new
updates be live on the mirrors.

Due to the size of the resigned updates, it may take a good while for
our sync process.  This may delay getting the new fedora-release out
until tomorrow, but we'll be working hard on it.

While we're working on this update, we'll also be drafting a FAQ page to
explain to users what it is that we're doing, and hopefully answer some
of the questions that will come up.  This document will be living
though, and as you encounter questions yourself, or questions via one of
our many avenues of support (email, IRC, forums, LUGS, etc..) please
help us in growing that document.  Announcements regarding the location
of said document and how to help with content will be coming shortly.

We deeply appreciate the enormous magnitude of patience you the greater
community has shown us the Fedora project as we work though these
serious issues.  It is a great testament to how wonderful it is to work
in and with the Fedora community.

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[Jesse Keating-3]

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:09 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Announcements regarding the location
> of said document and how to help with content will be coming shortly.

Time for another update on the F8 and F9 updates status.

Our testing with the live update content as gone well.  We identified a
couple issues with the current PackageKit and thanks to Richard Hughes
we'll have an updated PackageKit to offer as well as an updated
fedora-release package for our users.  The combination of the two (or
just the fedora-release package for you non-packagekit users) will be
all that you will need in order to gain access to our newly signed and
relocated updates.

We're in the final stages of testing a few corner cases, and preparing
the official builds of fedora-release, PackageKit, gnome-packagekit, and
unique (needed as a new dep for gnome-packagekit).  All existing updates
in the old update locations will be purged, and just these updates will
be put in their place, signed with our old key.  Once you've updated to
these packages, the next update attempt will point you to our new
locations with our new keys and you should be able to process any
further pending updates.  You'll be prompted to import the new key along
the way.

A wiki page has been created that covers some of this,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Enabling_new_signing_key and will be
updated throughout the day as we finish the above listed tasks.  A more
formal announcement along with links to the official FAQ will be
published to same lists this mail is going out to, and likely picked up
by various news sites.  We expect things to wrap up by the end of today
or early tomorrow.

Once again we thank you for your continued patience and be aware that
we're nearly there!

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