Public keys - again.

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Fri Dec 15 10:02:19 UTC 2006


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 15 December 2006 09:17, David Timms wrote:
>> - firefox freshrpms.net
>> - click on: The easiest way to install freshrpms.net packages is to
>> "click here".
>> - Let it open in software installer, or if you have defaulted to save to
>> disk, save it and then click on the resulting rpm {opening in software
>> installer}
>> - click OK.
>> - site can not be confirmed: do you want to install ? yes.
>> This gets the -release installed and the rpm key imported.
>> - pirut
>> - search eg ipw2200-firmware
>> - click the checkbox to add, OK.
>> - done :)
>>
>> If no gui available then from memory the following just works, whereas
>> yum wont autoimport the key:
>> # rpm -Uvh
>> http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/freshrpms-release/fre
>> shrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
>>
> Dave, I've no idea what is going on here.
> 
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>         package freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc is already installed
> 
> I tried editing /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo to 'gpgcheck=0' - much as I 
> dislike doing this - but I still got the 'no public key' message.  As you 
> see, the release rpm is installed, and so 
> does /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-freshrpms
> 
> I used freshrpms under FC4 without problems, but when I decided to make livna 
> my main third-party repo in FC6 I didn't set up freshrpms.  This is the first 
> time I've tried them since FC6's install.
Erk,

Maybe yum remove freshrpms-release first. Then repeat the above, see if 
it's the same result ?

DaveT.




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