Listing hardware

[Paul Howarth]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 18:22 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>>On Friday 10 March 2006 17:28, Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 17:23 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Friday 10 March 2006 17:11, Craig White wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>----
>>>>>easy answer...rpmforge is for all purposes of Fedora Core 4, dag
>>>>>
>>>>>install this package
>>>>>http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/rpmforge-release/
>>>>>
>>>>>rpm -ivh http://rpmforge.net/user/packages/rpmforge-release/
>>>>>should do it
>>>>
>>>>Grabbed it, but slightly confused.  The site says that it contains the
>>>>gpg-keys, but yum says I need the keys to install it.  I'm still looking
>>>>for the keys - I'm sure they must be there, but they are certainly not
>>>>obvious.
>>>>
>>>>Anne
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>then yum update - should be interesting
>>>>>
>>>>>yum search lshw
>>>>>
>>>>>with the right repositories, you shouldn't have to go searching around
>>>>>the number of places rpms can be found.
>>>
>>>----
>>># locate GPG-KEY-rpmforge
>>>/usr/share/doc/rpmforge-release-0.2/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-matthias
>>>/usr/share/doc/rpmforge-release-0.2/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
>>>/usr/share/doc/rpmforge-release-0.2/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dries
>>>/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-matthias
>>>/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dag
>>>/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmforge-dries
>>>
>>>rpm --import /usr/share/doc/rpmforge-release-0.2/RPM-GPG-KEY*
>>>
>>
>>Circular argument, Craig, and that's what's confusing me.  I presume you got 
>>them from the package, but -
>>
>>Installing:
>> rpmforge-release        i386       
>>0.2-2.2.fc4.rf   /home/anne/Downloads/rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm   
>>14 k
>>
>>Transaction Summary
>>=============================================================================
>>Install      1 Package(s)
>>Update       0 Package(s)
>>Remove       0 Package(s)
>>Total download size: 14 k
>>Is this ok [y/N]: y
>>Downloading Packages:
>>warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1aa78495
>>
>>Public key for rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm is not installed
>>
>>so I don't have those keys because it didn't install.  Do I have to install 
>>with something like '--nokeys' ?
> 
> ----
> hmmm...I don't recall ever having this issue but yeah, it would seem
> that is an issue...is there a --nokeys option to rpm? I don't think so.
> I think there is a --nosignature option though

Anne's trying to use yum to install the keys needed for yum, which as 
she says is a bit of a circular problem.

It can be fixed by using rpm directly to install the rpmforge-release 
package.

$ sudo rpm -Uvh 
/home/anne/Downloads/rpmforge-release-0.2-2.2.fc4.rf.i386.rpm

Paul.