[Yum-devel] A new ctrl-c gotcha/regression

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Feb 14 20:08:33 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 21:47 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> If we forget about rpm 4.6 - 4.7 (ie just let them behave like 4.4.x 
> does), in newer versions you can use your own keyring without ever 
> touching the rpmdb for keys if you want to - for example pulling the 
> keys pointed to by .repo files into a keyring and telling rpm to use 
> that instead of what might be in the rpmdb. It's just that wedging this 
> kind of new stuff into yum while maintaining yum's api compatibility, 
> rpm 4.4.x compatibility and without adding large sections of differing 
> codepaths causing even more pain, is not always exactly trivial.
> 

what kind of keyring is this? A normal gpg pubring + trustdb or rpm's
keyring-in-a-db?


> If it wasn't clear, I'm looking into various ways to make rpm within yum 
> less painful than it currently (rather obviously) is, not more :)


I know and I appreciate it.

-sv




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