GPG Problems with FC4

[Paul Howarth]

Piero wrote:
>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of chalonec
> 
>>Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 6:19 PM
>>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: GPG Problems with FC4
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> 
>>I have been trying to update my fc4 using up2date and yum.  Both say the
> 
> packages I am downloading do not have signed GPG keys.  Is there a fix for
> this?
> 
> Sure... it's enough to edit /etc/yum.conf setting "gpgcheck" directive to 0
> value on each repository...

That's hiding the problem rather than fixing it though. The GPG checks 
help you to ensure that only software packaged by the maintainers of the 
repos you use gets installed on your system, even if those repos get 
hacked by the bad guys.

Paul.