FC4 Mplayer installation problem

[Richard Kelsch]

Childish.

The original writer brings up a good point, although somewhat over the 
top.  The package signature mechanism is very under documented, if at 
all.  I have observed bizarre issues with the GPG mechanism of both YUM 
and UP2DATE.  Once I found that simply reloading the keys didn't fix the 
problem of getting packages to install.  Even turning off GPG checks 
didn't fix it either.  I had, at that time, resorted to just going to 
the cache directory and installing the package it downloaded manually.  
Somehow, the GPG method of package checking was broken, and I couldn't 
fix it.  Luckily, the OS drive is different than my data drives, so I 
just resorted to an OS re-install (it was FC3 I was using) and 
everything was fixed.  I have no idea what broke it in the first place, 
but it was very annoying.  I couldn't find any documentation on how it 
works nor how to troubleshoot it.  The "fixes" I could find didn't work 
either.  I had installed keys until I turned blue.  So I can understand 
this guy's frustration.

It seems the GPG method is good generally, but it is very fragile and 
hard to fix if broken.

Nevertheless, I'd even recommend not turning it off as well.  Its 
benefits outweigh the annoyance.

Rich

Markku Kolkka wrote:

>radioact1ve kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika tiistai, 5. 
>heinäkuuta 2005 21:54):
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>>Not this dam thing again. I remember when I would get the
>>NOKEY thing. I just wasn't in the mood to learn gpg. So FC3
>>went out the window. I don't want to go through this whole
>>thing again. Is there any way I can turn of this "feature". It
>>annoys the shit out of me.
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>That's easy, just install Windows 98. It has no annoying security 
>features and it gives completely free access to your system for 
>all viruses, trojans, spyware and other software you apparently 
>enjoy having and spreading around.
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