rpm --nosignature reversed meaning

Jeffrey Johnson n3npq at me.com
Tue Aug 30 13:04:42 CEST 2016


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> 
> If so, rpm should either ignore secondary key or refuse to install such
> joint at all.
> 

RPM *does* ignore secondary keys.

And look carefully at this well-formed pubkey (scroll through the page)

	http://keys.niif.hu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x0B7F8B60E3EDFAE3

It is not at all clear how to filter crap like this out of pubkeys and refuse to
import.

What RPM does instead is exactly what is requested: It verifies
the CRC in the armor while converting the base64, and pushes
the blob into /var/lib/rpm/Pubkeys.

WYSIWYG.

> On the PLD side - someone has to split the key on FTP (and then in
> rpm.git). Or remove it completely, as apparently noone uses sigs anyway…
> 

Yes.

Glenn: and this is likely the cause for inability to verify signatures
while doing rpm —verify, so the patch that disables can likely
be removed.

73 de Jeff



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