Re: Updating RedHat 9

From: george (replytogroup_at_linuxnewbie.com)
Date: 07/05/03 

Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 09:14:52 -0400

Hello William,

Thanks for your message.

I tried several times to download packages that are bigger than around
1Mb. They always always ended up being corrupted.

I do not know how to download the upgrades by using another method than
the graphical one with Red Hat Update Agent. I installed my RedHat 9
just few days ago and I know very little of Linux.

William, thanks for telling me that my initial thinking inclination is
wrong.

To answer your last question ... In the context that I often download
much bigger files with Windows (bigger than the updates for Linux)
without any problems, I wondered why I would consistently get corrupted
updates with Linux. So, I thought that it might be something related to
the fact that I have a demo account. The fine print for demo accounts
makes it clear that there are limitations associated with demo accounts.

One might then think that a possible way to avoid updating problems is
to get rid of the limitations by buying a regular account with Red Hat
Network.

So, the incentive for Red Hat would have been the money coming from
another buyer of the regular account.

Once again, I thank you for letting me know that this is just twisted
thinking.

George

William Hooper wrote:
> "george" <replytogroup@linuxnewbie.com> wrote in message
> news:_9iNa.36194$PD3.115689@nnrp1.uunet.ca...
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>>When I try to update the packageswith the Red Hat Update Agent I get
>>error messages like this one:
>>
>>The package ....(name of package).... does not have a valid GPG
>>signature. It has been tampered with or corrupted. Continue?
>>
>>My system has a demo entitlement. I am enclined to believe that, because
>> I have a demo account, the update packages are not "the good ones".
>>
>>I hope that I am wrong. Can someone shed some light on this issue, please?
>>
>>Please reply to the newsgroup. Thank you.
>>
>>george
>
>
> Sorry to burst your conspiracy bubble, but that just means you had trouble
> downloading the package and it is corrupted. I suggest trying to download
> it again. If you keep having issues download the update in question using
> another method (curl, wget, etc.) and use the -k option of up2date to tell
> it where to look for the package.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what incentive would there be for Red Hat to provide
> packages that aren't "the good ones" to anyone?
>

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