F***in' annoying unavailable keys...

[Stephen Boddy]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 19:39, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Stephen Boddy wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > You really seem to know this stuff, so a quick question please.
>
> Yah, I wrote the code ;-)

Consider me a suitable shade of mauve with embarrassment... :-[

> > I had two packages without keys, and I kept getting annoying popups
> > notifying
> > me of the fact when using the GUI. I've obtained the public key and
> > imported
> > it for one of them as per the above, but I am unable to find the
> > key for the
> > second anywhere.
> >
> > Is it possible to deactivate the check for the single package
> > giving me grief?
> > (It's the libdvdcss 1.2.8 rpm from VideoLan in case that is relevant)
> >
> > Or would I be better off erasing the package and installing the lib
> > from
> > source?
>
> Easiest solution is to sign the package with your key and install:
>     rpm --addsign libdvdcss*.rpm
>      ...
>      rpm -Uvh --force libdvdcss*.rpm
>
> That does mean you will have to resign the package every time you want
> to upgrade, but it will remove the annoying pop-ups, giving you time
> to find the necessary pubkey, or alternatively, a repository with a
> replacement upgrade for libdvdcss that does have a pubkey.

I'll do that. Fact is I rarely if ever need to upgrade that package, as it's a 
good unix-y program. Does just one thing, and does it well. :-)

Thanks for the advice.
-- 
Steve Boddy