GPG-pubkeys

[Christoph Thiel]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:18:57 -0400 Jeff Johnson <n3npq at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > Public keys are a vital part of insuring that a rpm package has not
> > been tampered with.
> >
> > Public key management, new in recent smart, basically
> > 	Is it okay to import this public key (Y/n)?
> > requires interaction with the end-user for new public keys.
> >
> > Meanwhile, there are other ways to distribute and install public keys
> > that
> > do not involve human interaction. E.g. importing the handful of
> > public keys
> > for the repository uses will avoid the necessity of answering yes
> > mindlessly.
> >
> > 73 de Jeff
> 
> Unfortunately, the systems I run 'smart' on have to access the
> internet through a proxy.  And the internal 'gpg' calls used by
> 'smart' do *not* supply the gpg parameter that indicates when a
> proxy is being used.  Whenever for me 'smart' tried to import
> any public key, the result has *always* been a message saying
> that the gpg server could not be accessed.

So, which option did you need to pass to gpg to make it actually fetch a 
key for you?


Regards
	Christoph