From Fedora Core 1 to 1.91: apt-get upgrade error: unsigned package(s)

[Panu Matilainen]

On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 00:22, Weirong Zhu wrote:
> My current system is Fedora Core 1.
> 
> I use apt-get to upgrade packages.
> 
> my apt version is 0.5.15cnc5
> 
> Now I am trying to upgrade my system to Fedora Core 1.91
> 
> However, When I did the apt-get upgrade: I got bellow error informations:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> 
> 731 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 removed and 98 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/739MB of archives.
> After unpacking 254MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Checking GPG signatures...
> Unsigned /var/cache/apt/archives/libselinux_1.8-1_i386.rpm: sha1 md5 OK
[snip]
> Unsigned /var/cache/apt/archives/xinitrc_3.39-1_noarch.rpm: sha1 md5 OK
> E: Error: 73 unsigned package(s)
> 0 package(s)s with unknown signatures
> 0 package(s) with illegal/corrupted signatures
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> I have imported all the keys as I know.

If you read the error message carefully the "problem" is that the
packages aren't signed at all, as is usual for the development tree.
Temporarily worked around with "-o rpm::gpg-check=false" or set in
apt.conf to change permanently.

	- Panu -