[Spacewalk-list] Channel GPG Key Setup

[Michael Mraka]

RBogle at williams-int.com wrote:
% That makes sense; however what is the point to having the GPG key information in the channel configuration?

Well, if you already have gpg keys on disk e.g. from you installation
media then you can put something like
  file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
to your channel GPG info and it will work as you expected.

% Rich J. Bogle
% Infrastructure & Computing Systems
% Information Technology
% 
% -----Original Message-----
...
% % When configuring a channel in spacewalk there is an option at the
% % bottom % of the configuration screen for the local of the GPG Key
% % and GPG Key ID.  I cannot successfully use these to satisfy the GPG
% % Key requirements for % the channel.
% %
% % For the GPG URL:  http://spacewalk.server.fqdn/pub/keyname and I
% % have % the key in that location.
% %
% % GPG Key ID: I use the ID for the above key % % Clients do not pull
% % this information down with the channel to allow the % RPM's to
% % install.  How can I get this to happen without manually adding % the
% % GPG key to each client system?
% 
% yum-rhn-plugin automatically installs GPG keys from local filesystem
% only. This is for security reasons - you can't really trust signature
% if you download both rpm and key from the same source.
% 

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat