strange issues with yum update

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Aug 7 16:47:42 UTC 2004


Am Sa, den 07.08.2004 schrieb Globe Trotter um 18:37:

> > > I can no longer get yum to update my packages. The following is what I get:
> > 
> > > Downloading Packages
> > > warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> > > Error: Could not find the GPG Key necessary to validate pkg
> > > /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/libpng10-1.0.15-8.i386.rpm
> > > Error: You may want to run yum clean or remove the file: 
> > >  /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/libpng10-1.0.15-8.i386.rpm
> > > Error: You may also check that you have the correct GPG keys installed
> > 
> > > This has been happening for the past week or so. What do I do? I am sorry I
> > do
> > > not quite understand.
> > 
> > As always said: please use a mirror server located near you - not the
> > Redhat main server as it is already used by too many people.

> How does one go about it? The following is my yum.conf file:

> [core]
> name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - core
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/core
> gpgcheck=1
> 
> [updates]
> name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - updates
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/updates
> gpgcheck=1

So you use a mirror. Above error seems to indicate that you have not the
proper GPG keys imported into your rpm database. So updating using yum
could never have succeeded, given you did not change anything. Import
the GPG key(s) using "rpm --import".

Alexander


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