Re: signing RPMs without a passphrase?

[Lev Lvovsky <lists2 sonous com>]

Jeff,

On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> Well 2004 was a long time ago. Times have changed too ...
>
> FWIW, rpm-5 uses keyutils to store passphrases.
>
> Which means that its possible to us keyutils to manage
> a persistent session pass phrase, loaded before rpm is invoked,
> and the passphrase will be passed to gpg for signinging packages.
>
> But you can attempt signing without a pass phrase if you want too.

In my excitement, I assumed a bit too much about the system that  
you've described - from the following rpm-devel thread:

http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/1440.html

It looks like this implementation has been discussed, but I've not  
found any documentation on how to actually use it - is there any out  
there?

thanks,
-lev