Christofer C. Bell said: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:43:58 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Yum does not manage/check the gpg keys. The RPM process yum runs in >> the background checks the gpg key, and then it can do so only after the >> user has explicitly used rpm to import the key to the local rpm system. > > Can you please explain this cron output to me, then? I'm not > understanding what's going on in light of what you're saying: > > /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: > > > warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1ac70ce6 > public key not available for fortune-mod-1.99.1-2.i386.rpm Retrieving GPG > key This is a relitively new feature (added in 2.2.0 I think) of yum that Jeff probably wasn't aware of. [snip] > Note that I had already imported the public key for Fedora Extras to > install the fortune-mod package that was updated by yum. Why does yum > appear to be downloading and installing a new key? This is a good question. -- William Hooper
