(fedora) Re: nvidia kernel driver

Johnathan Bailes johnathan.bailes at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 13:39:14 UTC 2005


On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:35:15 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
> Why do so many people (not just you Johnathan) recommend turning off GPG
> checks like this?
> 
> What's so hard about running:
> 
> # rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
> 
> It only has to be done once...?
> 
> Given that several high-profile sites (e.g. sendmail, debian) have been
> compromised over the years and possibly trojaned packages uploaded,
> having GPG checks is a very sensible and easy to implement safeguard.
> 
> Paul.
> 

Sorry man you are right just being lazy.  I took the example from
another site (not at my box).

GPG checks are very good practice.




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