On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 05:33:51PM +0800, Didier Casse wrote: > > Hi there! > When we built a package, we can sign it at build time by issuing > the command: > > rpmbuild -ba --sign file.spec > > and it will prompt for something like this: > > Enter pass phrase: <passphrase> (Not echoed) > > Now on my system I need to build rpm automatically ( without human > intervention)! Is it possible to have my paraphrase being read in a file > rather than me sitting in front of the computer and actually typing it? > > I know it's not a very good idea but my rpms need to be generated > automatically daily via cron, and I can't sit behind my pc and type the > paraphrase each time one rpm is being built. > > Can I avoid the prompting of the paraphrase if I want to sign my packages > at build-time and everything be done automatically? Thanks. > > This is for the purpose of a repository and things like these need to be > automated when dealing with multiple packages. I don't know if that is possible, but one thing you can do is generate the rpms without signing then, and signing all of them in one pass afterwards (e.g. rpm --addsign *.rpm). David Jansen
