On 01/27/2012 10:42 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > 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 > > > > So my last comment on this is that clicking on "no GPG check" in yumex, at least in my experience, does not make that a permanent option. If you need/want to turn it off it needs to be done each time.
Kevin
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