GPG-pubkeys

[Christoph Thiel]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> > > As long as the upgrade does not stop, after a so called 'unavailable 
> > > key' there is only the problem from the unavailable key.
> > >
> > > But, when after not finding the key, everything stops, the 
> > > downloaded packages sit, waiting for to be installed... that is what 
> > > happens...
> > >
> > > It fucked up my os, and i had to reinstall, after which i upgraded 
> > > to SuSE 10.1, which does not have this problem at all.
> >
> > I agree, we need to improve the gpg key importing at that point. But 
> > signing a package without putting the gpg key onto a keyserver doesn't 
> > really sound sane to me :)
> >
> 
> Lots of insanity around. ;-)
> 
> Meanwhile, you can probably do
> 	rpm --import SOME_GPG-KEY
> in a package %post as a means of importing, and
> I also suspect that a package named AAAAAAA*.rpm  with no
> other dependencies has a fair to middling chance of being
> installed before any other package , LC_COLLATE almost gud enuf.

That's what we do for the stuff that we ship (SUSE Linux / openSUSE) -- 
the other stuff however, isn't our territory :(


Regards
	Christoph