GPG signature unknown

[Paul Howarth]

Hacksaw wrote:
> Boy, I'm not having a good week. Yesterday my monitor died. Given it
> was six years old, but I had hoped for a little longer life from it. 
> 
> But here's today's irritation:
> 
> I was trying to upgrade glibc, in the hopes that this might solve my X
> woes.
> 
> It goes through the dependencies checking and what not, and then
> reports that one of the packages has an unknown GPG signature.
> 
> I stopped the install.
> 
> I have run into this on initscripts as well.
> 
> Is it the repository? Is it someone in redhat screwing up? Is there
> some package or configuration I have failed to get right? What's
> going on here?

Give us a clue then. Which repo? Which key ID does it complain about?

Bear in mind that many packages make it into rawhide without being signed.

Paul.