Using yum with unsigned and corrupted packages.

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 20:22 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> Some of the packages I'm getting from the repositories are missing
> signatures (no big deal) or don't match their checksums. (Big deal, in
> my books)
> 
> If one is using yum, one incident of either of these stops the upgrade
> cold.  (Good thing/bad thing.)  The good thing is that nothing gets
> installed that shouldn't.  The bad thing is that it rejects all the
> other packages too.   
> 
> Is there a way to proceed with the install, automatically ignoring the
> unsigned packages and excluding the checksum missing packages ?
> 
> Is there a way to have yum query the user for permission to install each
> package  (and not kill all of them if the user rejects one) ?  BTW this
> was a pet peeve of mine with up2date as well.   
> 

Not really.  B/c you'd have to recalculate all the dependencies
excluding the packages that have bad signatures or bad checksums.

-sv