Am 27.01.2012 17:28, schrieb Kevin Martin: > yum clean all and yum upgrade will solve some problems, but certainly not 99% > of them. For example, I *am* a > tester of rawhide and have been fighting a battle with the x11 updates. I > finally removed about 25 x11 packages > that I determined weren't necessary on my system, ran the yum update, and > finally was able to get my x11 updated. > yum clean all would not have done *anything* to correct that issue.
this is a totally different topic > And yes, I'm well aware of what the gpgchecking does but you do still not understand it proved by "sometimes the gpg keys aren't available or are screwed up" > and why it should not be disabled. However, being able to > disable it is there for a reason and he was trying to update a package from a > repository that he knows and, > presumably, trusts. so tell him "yum --nogpgcheck upgrade" because this is temporary, tell people disable it per option will mostly result in permanently disabled > And sometimes the gpg keys aren't available or are screwed up and THAT should be a alarm signal and NOT SOLVED by disable the check because this may happen because you hit a compromised mirror or your dns-server was compromised so take a breath and think what disable the check would make for damage! after that think again for what reason the checks are there exactly to prevent from damage in such cases
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