Package warning - Rawhide

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Sun Oct 12 16:04:37 UTC 2008


Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 14:27 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> The PackageKit warning for every single unsigned package - which
>> happens to be everything in rawhide is just plain annoying. Can't we
>> do something nice about that?
> 
> Being honest, PackageKit should really just abort the transaction in the
> unsigned case, as if the mirror has been compromised then we should fail
> to upgrade an unsigned package. At the moment rawhide is wide open.
> 
> If prevented unsigned packages, nobody would be able to use rawhide at
> all.
> 
> Maybe a setting in PackageKit.conf might be the best plan:
> 
> UnsignedPackages=abort|warn|allow

This is a property of the repository, not of the package manager. If the 
rawhide repo is fundamentally unsigned, this should be a property in the 
.repo file itself, not a global property.




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