rpm will not let me sign packages

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 9 May 2004 12:54:34 -0700 (PDT), Mark Fonnemann wrote:

> is this a bug?
>
> [root at markf78 home]# rpm --addsign ghex-2.6.0-0.i386.rpm
> ghex-2.6.0-0.i386.rpm:
> 
> i'm wondering if perhaps the syntax has changed to sign an rpm post-build but
> there's no mention of this in the man page. any help would be greatly
> appreciated. thanks...

Set up your ~/.rpmmacros file and define

%_signature  gpg
%_gpg_name   your_key_name