all I wanted was to update the kernel, not a crypto lesson ...

[Christopher Brown]

On 03/10/2007, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 15:07 +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:
> > Can someone then explain to me why the rawhide key does not already
> > exist on an installed system? Should this not be set up as with base,
> > updates and others to prevent issues like Nelson's?
>
> It's already *present* in /etc/pki/rpm-gpg, same as every Fedora key. As
> for why it's not imported...
>
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?YouArentGonnaNeedIt


That is a really poor argument. Apart from the fact I despise cut-and-paste
links to arguments not written with the current issue specifically in mind,
saying that a key should not be imported because you're not going to need
it? Take that one to its logical conclusion and we might as well close the
source and sit back because we're just dumb users who need to be dictated
what is and is not available.

To prevent accidental testing/unstable/rawhide/development packages you need
to add a flag in yum. This is enough to discourage users from borking their
system. Not importing the key - that's just annoying and another hurdle to
overcome. Especially when its available. This should be changed as Jesse has
indicated it might well be.

Cheers
Chris

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