[Spacewalk-list] Channel GPG information

[Michael Mraka]

Snyder, Chris wrote:
% A Channel definition has a 'Security: GPG' section which contains the
% GPG Key URL, ID, and Fingerprint.
% 
% When/where does this information get used within Spacewalk?  Does
% Spacewalk automatically make this key available to any client system
% that registers with this channel?

It's sent to yum and it's the equivalent of 'gpgkey' option in .repo
file.

% Oh, and why are GPG keys NOT associated with a repository definition?
% This would make the most sense to me versus having them related to a
% channel or kickstart profile.

Software channel is what is translated to yum repo on clients side.
And yum repo can contain only one gpgkey.

On the other hand repositories-to-channel relation is many-to-many so
there would be no way how to pick a single gpg key to pass to client as
a channel (aka yum repo) gpgkey.

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat