Re: The software is not from a trusted source ???

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On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:49:45PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I was just rather surprised to see this message and would like to know
> > if packagekit is getting "more sophisticated" or there was some slight
> > problem with one of the packages (unsigned?) 
 
> Or the copy on your mirror has been tampered with so has a bogus
> signature. It's not something you should treat likely. Sure 99.9% of the
> time its probably a process error in producing the package or if you've
> added extra repositories and it comes from one of them you may not have
> imported the needed key.
> 
> But it might not be, and one day someone will trojan a mirror site and
> people who disable and ignore the signing checks will get burned.
> 
> Another thing to check btw is that the package is simply not corrupt in
> the download. Yum used to be very stupid about this and would keep the
> corrupt package cached and keep erroring it. I've no idea if it was
> fixed - but see if yum clean all then updating fixes it.

When packagekit update showed this message I could have gone ahead with
the download/update but I switched to using yum.

Yum showed nothing 'strange' and the updates proceeded without problem
and checked out ok.

So it all remains something of a mystery.

AV

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