On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:35:15 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why do so many people (not just you Johnathan) recommend turning off GPG > checks like this? > > What's so hard about running: > > # rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY > > It only has to be done once...? > > Given that several high-profile sites (e.g. sendmail, debian) have been > compromised over the years and possibly trojaned packages uploaded, > having GPG checks is a very sensible and easy to implement safeguard. > > Paul. > Sorry man you are right just being lazy. I took the example from another site (not at my box). GPG checks are very good practice.
