On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 12:15 +0100, Daniel Moyne wrote: > b) regarding what you told me for GPG-KEY : > rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY* > it worked fine and I could globally update my system but it took forever hours > and hours though I have ADSL ! ; I have seen somewhere a "yum.conf" file > proposed to solve this type of problem ; to stay on the positive side whom to > contact to to modify the error message obtained before executing your command > that is to say : > .................. > You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing. > However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download > the keys for packages you wish to install and install them. > You can do that by running the command: > rpm --import /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY* > .................. > instead of : > .................. > You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing. > However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download > the keys for packages you wish to install and install them. > You can do that by running the command: > rpm --import public.gpg.key > .................. > which is more relevant ! Yum is a tool that can install packages from many different places, each of which will have their own GPG key. That's why the yum instructions use a generic example "public.gpg.key" rather than a Fedora-repository- specific list of keys "/usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RPM-GPG-KEY*" Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
