On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 09:18:41 -0700
David L <idht4n(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have an f11 preview system on which I'm
trying to yum install pptp and I'm running into
various errors. I seem to recall that there is
a time window after which updating a preview
system no longer updates to f11 but instead
stays on rawhide. I want to update to f11 and
install a few packages without updating
everything because I have a 5G monthly
quota on my Verizon wireless connection.
What is the right way to update from f11
preview to f11 at this point?
I've tried editing the yum.repos.d files
to enable fedora and disable rawhide
and changing $releasever to 11, but
now I'm getting this error:
GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error [Errno 2]
No such file or directory: '/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-i386'>
Thanks,
David
Hi,
Try going to one of the mirrors on this list
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/11/
and downloading the release package for F11
fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
It contains the keys and the repositories for F11.
rpm -ivh fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
as root will install the f11 keys and repositories, which should fix
your gpg problems. Then, go into your /etc/yum.repos.d
directory and disable all of the other repositories except the new ones.
From that point you should be in F11. I would advise that you do a
yum upgrade yum\*
and
yum upgrade rpm\*
first thing.
No guarantees, I've never done this with a rawhide installation, and as
Bill said you are out of warranty, but this should work. You are
basically doing a manual upgrade of your system like preupgrade would
do, except the old system version is the same as the new system version.
After the first two commands, you might want to run
yum list updates > updates-file
and look at the list of updates to decide what to do next.
Don't forget to do the same for the rpmfusion repositories if you are
using them.