RPM signing problem

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Adalbert Prokop wrote:

> Hello everybody!
>
> I'm trying to create my own private little repository with signed RPMS
> (additional software, not available from other repositories or some
> really old stuff not provided any more).
>
> Yesterday I've noticed strange behaviour of rpm. I've downloaded a
> msttcorefonts and tried to add my own signature to it. The package is
> RPM version 3, at least "file" tells me so. I am able to sing other
> packages, no problems there. I use rpm-4.6.0-1.fc10.i386 on Fedora 10.
>
> I do "rpm --addsign msttcorefonts-..." and I get no error message at
> all. But a "rpm -K msttcorefonts-*" tells me there is not GPG signature
> present!
>
> Do you have an idea what goes wrong and how to track down this problem?

Only rpm 3.x can sign V3 packages. "rpm --addsign msttcorefonts-..." 
probably exits with non-zero code, there's just no error message generated 
for this case.

 	- Panu -