On Saturday 30 December 2006 17:02, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 16:48 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I have downloaded printer drivers from the manufacturer's site and set > > out to do a yum localinstall. It aborts because the package is > > unsigned. I can't see any way, from the man pages, to tell it to > > ignore the signature or lack of it. Can it be done, or must I use > > rpm? > > You could reconfigure YUM not to do a GPG check (see the yum.conf man > file), though I'm loathe to suggest it. You could make an additional > configuration file that doesn't check GPG, and specify your special > configuration file when you do a local install (see the yum man file > about specifying the configuration file to use). A half measure *might* > be to disable GPG checking in the yum.conf file, but enable it in the > individual repo configuration files. > > If you've manually downloaded it, and the one package can be installed > without any worries about sorting out dependencies, you might as well > use rpm. Using the yum command isn't gaining you anything. > Fair enough. I'm always a bit reluctant to mix methods, but in this case it's probably better and safer than disabling check, then having to remember to put it back afterwards. Anne
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