[Spacewalk-list] Channel GPG Key Setup

[RBogle at williams-int.com]

That makes sense; however what is the point to having the GPG key information in the channel configuration?

Rich J. Bogle
Infrastructure & Computing Systems
Information Technology

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From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Michael Mraka
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Channel GPG Key Setup

RBogle at williams-int.com wrote:
% When configuring a channel in spacewalk there is an option at the bottom % of the configuration screen for the local of the GPG Key and GPG Key ID.
% I cannot successfully use these to satisfy the GPG Key requirements for % the channel.
%
% For the GPG URL:  http://spacewalk.server.fqdn/pub/keyname and I have % the key in that location.
%
% GPG Key ID: I use the ID for the above key % % Clients do not pull this information down with the channel to allow the % RPM's to install.  How can I get this to happen without manually adding % the GPG key to each client system?

yum-rhn-plugin automatically installs GPG keys from local filesystem only. This is for security reasons - you can't really trust signature if you download both rpm and key from the same source.

% Rich J. Bogle
% Infrastructure & Computing Systems
% Information Technology


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat

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