fedora-legacy-list digest, Vol 1 #79 - 15 msgs

[John Dalbec]

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:40:09 -0600
> From: Eric Rostetter <rostetter at mail.utexas.edu>
> To: fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: web site updates
> Reply-To: fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com
> 
> Quoting John Dalbec <jpdalbec at ysu.edu>:
> 
> 
>>One alternative would be to import the keys in the postinst.  FreshRPMs' yum
>>RPM
>>does this.
>>John
> 
> 
> Bad idea for anything to be messing with the root user's keychain, really.
> I just don't like the sound of that...

Well, FreshRPMs.net doesn't seem to have a problem with it.  What about printing 
a message in the postinst to remind the user to import the GPG keys?  This would 
be analogous to the Horde RPMs printing a message in the postinst to remind the 
user to restart httpd/apache.
John
> 
> I'll add the info on how to add the keys to the web site when I get time...
> 
> --
> Eric Rostetter