Public key for perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2

Doll, Margaret Ann margaret_doll at brown.edu
Thu Jul 19 12:08:12 UTC 2012


Thanks again for your help.  The system is now up-to-date.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Corey Kovacs <corey.kovacs at gmail.com>wrote:

> You need to import the packager's public key into the rpm db on any host
> using which you want to use the epel repo's.
>
> The key is here.. http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
>
> Soo, you can do this...
>
> rpm --import http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
>
> To get it into your host's rpm db.
>
> What is happening is the rpm/yum utilities are, by default tying to ensure
> that you are only installing packages from a trusted source. This is very
> good for example if say someone broke into epel and inserted a version of
> some package, say, my-evil-version-of-httpd.rpm in place of
> httpd-<version>.i686.rpm. That person would not be able to "sign" the
> packages using the appropriate private key from which the epel public was
> derived and rpm/yum would catch it and warn you.
>
> If for some reason you want to override this behavior (bad idea) you can
> use the --nogpgcheck flaf to yum.
>
>
> -C
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:35 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
> > Doll, Margaret Ann wrote:
> > > I am trying to upgrade the perl packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> > > Server
> > > release 6.3 (Santiago)
> > >
> > > I am getting the error when I try "yum update perl"
> > >
> > > Downloading Packages:
> > > warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID
> > > 0608b895: NOKEY
> > >
> > >
> > > Public key for perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.027-1.el6.x86_64.rpm is not
> > > installed.
> > >
> > > I see that perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.027-1.el6.x86_64.rpm repository is
> > > epel6-64-main and not a rhel server.
> > >
> > > Where do I get the public key and how do I install it?  I did install
> > > perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-debuginfo-2.027-1.el6.x86_64.rpm; that didn't
> > > help.
> >
> > See if this helps, Margaret:
> > <
> >
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F
> > >
> >
> >       mark
> >
> > --
> > redhat-list mailing list
> > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
> >
> --
> redhat-list mailing list
> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
>



More information about the redhat-list mailing list