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[William Hooper]

Christofer C. Bell said:
> 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

This is a relitively new feature (added in 2.2.0 I think) of yum that Jeff
probably wasn't aware of.

[snip]
> 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?

This is a good question.

-- 
William Hooper