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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:03:11 +0200, Matthias Saou <matthias@rpmforge.net> wrote:

> I don't think gpg signing my repositories will help anything, as it will
> just ensure that my passphrase was typed to confirm the md5 signatures of
> all pgklists and srclists. Basically, you'll then just be sure that it's me
> who generated the files, and this will of course prevent automating the
> process of updating the apt repository when Red Hat updates show up.

    Isn't there a packager-key that's concealed inside the rpm?  Things have changed a bit since I used to work with'em, but I thought there was some internal number that must be compared to be correct (or, presumably, return an error.)
 
> In Red Hat Linux 8.0 though, the warnings about "No Key" appear until you
> import the right gpg public keys directly with rpm, for example :
> rpm --import /usr/share/doc/apt-0.5.4cnc7/RPM-GPG-KEY
> (this will import my key, which is used to sign all freshrpms.net packages)

    Hey, cool; wether it protects me or not, I feel better about it.
 
> Hopefully it is possible to the tell rpm to install *only* packages who
> verify against an imported gpg key? This for me would be the optimal way to
> ensure integrity with the way things curently work.

    Yeah, surely there's a flag for that; there is, for everything else, aye?  :)

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