automate rpm signing?
Karanbir Singh
mail-lists at karan.org
Wed Nov 22 12:09:05 UTC 2006
Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 21:21, Douglas Hubler wrote:
>> The Fedora website
>> http://fedora.redhat.com/About/security/
>> mentions Fedora builds are automatically signed. How is this done? rpm
>> --addsign requires user input and is not gpg-aware
>> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2004-January/021302.html
> You can automate it by not putting a password on the gpgkey. most of the rpms
> are manually signed for this reason. and all of extras are manually signed.
> the only automated signed would be in rawhide and i think they are generally
> not signed at all.
>
iirc, even with a blank passwd, rpm's default behavior is to ask for a
password anyway,
'expect' knows what to do :)
- KB
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