rpm --nosignature reversed meaning

[Kacper Kornet]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:53:49AM +0200, Tomasz Pala wrote:
> Should this work this way? Is it upstream bug or PLD-specific? How about RH-rpm?


> ~: strace -erecvfrom rpm -qp keepassx-2.0.2-2.x86_64.rpm
> keepassx-2.0.2-2.x86_64
> +++ exited with 0 +++


> ~: strace -erecvfrom rpm --nosignature -qp keepassx-2.0.2-2.x86_64.rpm
> recvfrom(12, "\25\24\201\200\0\1\0\5\0\0\0\0\2ha\4pool\16sks-keyserv"..., 2048, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("8.8.4.4")}, [16]) = 124
> recvfrom(12, "\"\27\201\200\0\1\0\5\0\0\0\0\2ha\4pool\16sks-keyserv"..., 65536, 0, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53), sin_addr=inet_addr("8.8.4.4")}, [16]) = 184
> keepassx-2.0.2-2.x86_64
> +++ exited with 0 +++

According to Jeff it's a feature. See his answer:

http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/pipermail/pld-devel-en/2015-June/024405.html

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  Kacper Kornet