When doing an up2date, I get a warning about GPG not signed

Philip Balister balister at vt.edu
Mon Oct 20 12:53:27 UTC 2003


I had this smae problem. It "went away" when I removed the key file
from /etc/sysconfig/rhn. Not the best solution, but it is keeping me
current now ...

Philip

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:41:49AM -0400, Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:
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> I am not sure if this is the same as getting the GPG not signed.
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> The other problem does not let you connect to RHN at all.  I know about
> that one since I have RH 7.3/9.0 as well.
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> Maybe the Rawhide packages don't get GPG signed???   GPG is used to
> prevent tampering, right
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> Ernesto
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Liam Griffiths
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:37 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: When doing an up2date, I get a warning about GPG not signed
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> Hi,
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> Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am doing an up2date after installing Fedora test 3:
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> Does anyone else get a warning about the packages not being signed with
> GPG??
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> This is potentially dangerous, right?  Should I not proceed with the
> up2dates.
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> Not sure if this applies to Fedora as it does to Red Hat, but from a
> link on their front page....
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> "The certificate used by up2date and rhn_register to communicate with
> Red Hat Network reached its end of life on August 28th, 2003. Users
> attempting to connect to Red Hat Network will see SSL connection or
> certificate verification failures."
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> Check out a fix at::
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> https://rhn.redhat.com/help/latest-up2date.pxt
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> Cheers,
> Liam
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> Thanks,
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> Ernest L. Williams Jr.
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> ORNL
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