[Yum-devel] pygpgme and yum

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 03:54 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> /var/cache doesnt seem like a good place to be putting keyrings. I
> thought that the intent behind /var/cache/ was that you could delete it
> and things would still work?

See james'  answer - he had it spot on.


> Next question: are you implementing this in a way that is compatible
> with the way that SUSE signs repos? I just implemented signed repos on
> my repos and would hate to have to redo things just because yum does it
> differently.
> 

> SUSE expects repomd.xml.asc and repomd.xml.key. If the signature isnt
> already in the db, it will download repomd.xml.key and offer to import
> that for you.


the repomd.xml.asc we can do, yes.

the repomd.xml.key is redundant when we already have the gpgkey option
in yum.conf.

-sv