FC6: Problem with signatures while upgrading

[Paul Howarth]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> Upgrading FC6 using yumex produces the following error box:
>         /nError checking package signatures:
>         exceptions.AttributeError
>         
> The following extract from the output log indicates that something may
> be wrong with the repo, especially since I don't have this problem when
> upgrading only packages in the extras repo.
>         ...
>         ---> Package tar.x86_64 2:1.15.1-21.fc6 set to be updated
>         --> Running transaction check
>         Downloading Packages:
>         Checking GPG Signatures:
>         Public key for qt-3.3.7-0.1.fc6.x86_64.rpm is not installed
>         Retrieving GPG key from
>         file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
>         ...
>         
> Any ideas what's going on?

Try manually installing the key, or using yum rather than yumex for the 
first update, then try yumex again.

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

Extras has its own key, so you don't see this problem for Extras.

Paul.