key import

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Feb 25 07:20:52 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 21:33 +0000, James Thorpe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I got this error while trying to install a newer kernel in order to 
> upgrade from FC1 to FC3:
> 
> [root at az downloads]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.5-1.358.i686.rpm
> error: kernel-2.6.5-1.358.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 4f2a6fd2
> error: kernel-2.6.5-1.358.i686.rpm cannot be installed
> 
> However, I have also done:
> rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
> and when that didn't work:
> rpm --import http://fedora.redhat.com/about/security/4F2A6FD2.txt
> 
> but when I do:
> rpm -q gpg-pubkey-6b8d79e6-3f49313d
> it still tells me that the key is not installed.

What has gpg-pubkey-6b8d79e6-3f49313d (Dag's GPG key) got to do with key
ID 4f2a6fd2?

gpg-pubkey-4f2a6fd2-3f9d9d3b (the Fedora GPG key) is the one you should
be looking for.

kernel-2.6.5-1.358.i686.rpm is the FC2 base kernel by the way, not the
FC3 one.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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