Thanks
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 14:16 -0500, Michael Yep wrote:
Hello
I installed a rpm on my system that I got off the web.
How can I know if it is a trusted package ?
[winston@localhost ~]$ rpm -vvK compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4.i386.rpm
D: Expected size: 178657 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(178217)
D: Actual size: 178657
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0
D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys rdonly mode=0x0
D: read h# 279 Header sanity check: OK
D: ========== DSA pubkey id b44269d0 4f2a6fd2 (h#279)
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.fc4.i386.rpm:
Header V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2
Header SHA1 digest: OK (dcd6900d5f8126232eee364b4662fe7e38155377)
MD5 digest: OK (b0580787dce3f1a1bbf9774340d20cf8)
V3 DSA signature: OK, key ID 4f2a6fd2
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys
D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: May free Score board((nil))
[winston@localhost ~]$
I forget where I even downloaded it from, but I didn't import anything
to my keyring.
What keys come with FC4?
Look in /etc/pki/rpm-gpg
Which ones are trusted?
Anything that's in there has presumably been put there as a result of a
package installation (you could use "rpm -qf /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/filename"
to see which package a key belongs to) and it should be reasonable for
you to trust any key provided by a package you've already installed, if
you're careful as you appear to be about these things.
I understand the the package has the correct checksum, but can I trust
the signer ?
The key in this case is the RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora one. Decide for
yourself :-)
Paul.
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Michael Yep
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