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August 4, 2006
Yum GPG Keys
I forgot to mention the use of GPG keys with yum in my recent post about using the mplug repository to install Adobe Flash Player.
In the .repo file for the mplug Yum repository, there are two lines about GPG; gpgcheck=1 turns on the feature that GPG signatures must be present and valid for packages downloaded from that repo or yum will not install them. gpgkey=http://macromedia.mplug.org/FEDORA-GPG-KEY provides the location where the GPG key file can be found. Simply download the key and run rpm --import FEDORA-GPG-KEY (as root, of course) to install the key into RPM.
There is older documentation on the Internet that will tell you to run gpg --import keyfile either prior to or in stead of rpm --import keyfile. That's for way older versions of RPM and no longer applies; it is only necessary (and desireable) to install the key into RPM.
Posted by lamontp at August 4, 2006 10:29 AM
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