[Yum-devel] GPG key importing

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Dec 21 06:55:20 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:25 +1000, Menno Smits wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > it's a hard call, truly. However the meaning behind -y is obvious.
> > Answer 'yes' to all questions.
> > 
> > 
> > so if -y is set, then assume the user has consented to the action. To do
> > otherwise would be inconsisent.
> > 
> > if -y is not set and stdin is not a tty, then exit with error about
> > needing a user confirmation.
> > 
> > sound reasonable?
> 
> yep, sounds good.
> 
> What about the use/incorporation of pgpmsg.py within yum?

I don't necessarily have any objection to it - but I'm mostly concerned
with the relative value versus supporting it.

The only thing I really do like is the ability to display the key info
to the user before we import it. That seems like it would be a useful
trick.

-sv





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