[Yum] Evil, evil RPM

Seth Vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jun 21 02:59:02 UTC 2002


> A one liner suggestion.  In the yum cron file please do an "export
> HOME=/root".  Why?  Because cron runs with HOME == / so RPM looks in
> /.gnupg for the keyring and finds nothing.  Hence sigcheck()s fail.
> Hence we all go insane!!!  Weeee!!!
> 

I'll do you one better. I am thinking of making a server config option be 
"gpg sig file". Then it will use that one.

That way its easy to verify sigs.

I know that rpm now has the option of setting the keyring to an arbitrary 
file. just have to figure out how to set it :)


-sv






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