[CentOS] OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys

Mon May 12 12:54:39 UTC 2008
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Ralph Angenendt
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:55 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: YUM, RPM and PGP keys
> 
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > I was just about to ask the same, but for packages I just rolled.
> >
> > Is there a cmd line swith or env var?
> 
> Why not sign packages you roll? It really isn't that hard. RPM does have

It's a throw away project on a throwaway vm instance.

> issues with large keys, though - Key on the top1000 list aren't usable
> :) - I think 64kb is the maximum size.
> 
> And: Setting gpgcheck to 0 in yum.conf should disable global gpg
> checking, you can turn it on for each repository in the .repo files
> under /etc/yum.repos.d/. So the choice of how you shoot yourself in the
> foot with unsigned packages is up to you >:)

But there are no (temporary) options from the command line?

> Cheers,
> 
> Ralph




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