gpg keys of older/newer fedora versions

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Thu Aug 6 23:31:27 UTC 2015


On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 11:43:19AM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 09:58 PM, Christopher Meng wrote:
> >On 7/18/15, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> >>I thought I'd ask here first: is there a strong reason *not* to include
> >>those keys?
> >
> >It's not recommended to encourage end users installing EOL releases.
> >
> I don't see how this affects people installing old releases either
> way.  It's easy to install any release. Just point to the right
> repo, the keys are included.  Is there some other aspect to this
> that I'm missing?

How would you know that those keys are the right keys?
Once it is installed, it will use it's own keys, but during the
initial installation you have to provide the keys
(or take the leap of faith with --nogpg).

Zbyszek


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