up2date GPG failures

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jun 23 17:22:59 UTC 2005


Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> I just did a fresh FC4 install on a amd64 from the 64-bit dvd iso.
> When running up2date from the icon and selecting "update everything"
> it downloads the first item (selinux-policy-targeted-xxx) and pops up
> a dialog that says the RPM wasn't GPG signed and wants to know if I
> feel like continuing anyway.  hmm.
> 
> Is this a bug in the up2date scripts or are the RPM's really not
> signed?  The up2date config gui comes with the "check GPG signature"
> pre-checked.  This seemed like a good thing, but it if means I need to
> hit "continue" 30 times between 1-2 minute waits, it is going to get
> old really fast.

The bug is that up2date is reporting a misleading error message, which 
should be "unknown signature" rather than "unsigned package".

Fix:
# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Paul.




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