GPG verification errors?

[M.Hockings]

-----Original Message-----

> *From:* fedora-list-admin at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]*On Behalf Of *Digant Kasundra
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:45 AM
> *To:* fedora-list at redhat.com
> *Subject:* GPG verification errors?
>
> I've been failing to upgrade packages recently due to failed GPG 
> verification.  Here is a sample:
>  
> "The package glibc-2.3.2-101.4 failed its gpg signature verification. 
> This means the package is corrupt."
>  
> Anyone else have this problem using up2date?
>  

Don wrote:

> Yes, I get that all the time when the up2date servers are busy.... I 
> press "up-arrow"/enter and try again... eventually it all works...
>  
>
Hi Digant,

I think the solution mentioned many times on this list is to simply 
change up2date to retrieve from a different source as the default source 
location gets over loaded.

Personally I've setup a nightly rsync and then all the FC1 boxes here do 
their up2date from that.  It then seems to be virtualy free of these errors.

As an aside, I would rather that up2date either just waited untill all 
the data is correctly received or timed out and failed if it can't 
retrieve the data correctly.  This business of retrieving bad data and 
giving you the option of installing from it (the bad data) makes me 
uneasy.  However I guess there must be good reason for this but it is 
one of many things I don't (yet) understand.

Kind regards,

Mike