excelent. that did the trick. thanks! all is also good after upgrading to popt-1.7.1-1.8x, rpm-4.1.1-1.8x, yum-2.0.4-1 and disabling the RPM keys in the root key ring. -robin On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 15:19, seth vidal wrote: > > I had a yum install failure that indicated a gpg sig problem. After > > verifying rpm -K passed for the package and its dependents I turned > > gpgcheck off. > > > > can anyone help me understand why rpm -K can pass but yum install fails > > ? > > > > in yum-1.03 you have to import the gpg keys into root's keyring, not > into the rpmdb. This is b/c 8.0 was a hybrid of rpm 4.1 and rpm 4.0.4. > > as root run: > gpg --import somekey > > then run yum again. See if it works. > > > I'm running rredhat 8.0 distro with rpm-4.1-1.06 and yum-1.03-1_80. > > Thanks for including the version and distro number. This makes things a > lot easier. > -sv > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
