No, they are not signed. Myabe one day we will, but so far there are much bigger issues.
For the same of providing actual details, so far all the ISO images with F18 rpms have two problems.
1) failed to start X and anaconda (the updated one) goes to text mode. The failure is in X, crashing with a
VT_WAITACTIVE error (as you found out). Nothing posted in that thread provides concrete workarounds for it.
2) In addition, anaconda does not pick up any of the automated options in the kickstart file, therefore, it stops for user input. This defeats the purpose of the Express CD. Automation is key for the express cd. Example: rootpw --plaintext admin ... this should set the root password automatically. This does not work automatically.
The only way around issue #1 I have found is to build with Fedora 19 packages.
The only way around #2 I have found is for the user to actually have to type
at the command line in grub (after pressing TAB). Also defeats the purpose of automation. Not all the options for this part have been tested yet on Fedora 19 packages.
From my point of view, the options we have are:
1) Release without an express CD. Make people download the DVD and then add the Amahi repo. Really painful process.
2) Release a CD that makes people type something at the grub prompt
3) Root cause the issues of #2 and fix them (or work around them).
For the sake of concreteness and provide actual details, the base kickstart I am using is this (where
http://mirror/ is a local repo mirror of 64-bit and noarch rpms):
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# Amahi Express Disc kickstart
repo --name=f18-base --baseurl=http://mirror/f18/base/
repo --name=f18-amahi --baseurl=http://mirror/f18/amahi-specific/
repo --name=f18-updates --mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-released-$releasever&arch=$basearch
timezone US/Pacific --isUtc
lang en_US.UTF-8
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
bootloader --location=mbr
autopart --type=plain
part / --grow --fstype ext4
install
cdrom
%packages --excludedocs
@core
kernel
anaconda
isomd5sum
grub-efi
grub2
efibootmgr
tmux
# Amahi related
hda-release
hda-ctl
hda-platform
amahi-sync
yum-plugin-fastestmirror
dialog
zenity
wget
%end
rootpw --plaintext admin
%post --nochroot
# disable firstboot
systemctl --no-reload disable firstboot-text.service 2> /dev/null || :
systemctl --no-reload disable firstboot-graphical.service 2> /dev/null || :
systemctl stop firstboot-text.service 2> /dev/null || :
systemctl stop firstboot-graphical.service 2> /dev/null || :
%end