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Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Mar 21 19:41:50 UTC 2005
Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:43:58 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
>
>>Yum does not manage/check the gpg keys. The RPM process yum runs in the
>>background checks the gpg key, and then it can do so only after the user
>>has explicitly used rpm to import the key to the local rpm system.
>
>
> Can you please explain this cron output to me, then? I'm not
> understanding what's going on in light of what you're saying:
>
> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:
>
> warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1ac70ce6
> public key not available for fortune-mod-1.99.1-2.i386.rpm
> Retrieving GPG key from
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/RPM-GPG-KEY-Fedora-Extras
> Importing GPG key 0x1AC70CE6 "Fedora Pre Extras Release
> <pre-extras at fedoraproject.org>"
>
> The commands that are being executed are these:
>
> /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum
> /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update
>
> Out of /etc/cron.daily/yum.
>
> Note that I had already imported the public key for Fedora Extras to
> install the fortune-mod package that was updated by yum. Why does yum
> appear to be downloading and installing a new key?
I suspect you have a "gpgkey" entry in your repo configuration for
Fedora Extras. See the description of "gpgkey" in "man yum.conf".
Paul.
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