Re: New to CentOS, and wondering about application availability

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On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:57 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> I'm not really up-to-snuff on the keys included with CentOS.  I deploy
> RHEL far more than CentOS (my apologies).
> 
> I assume you already know this, but:  
> - Any major "packages" system (DPKG, RPM) have a way for packages to be
> signed
> - Most major, automated "front-ends" (APT, YUM, UP2DATE) often check for
> valid signatures on packages using existing keys
> - Any keys not included in the base install will need to be imported
> from a trusted source, so they can then be checked on packages to
> guarantee they come from that trusted source
> 
> Ideally, the keys should come with the distro, but once you start adding
> repositories, they don't always.
---
they come with it...

as root

# updatedb
# locate GPG-KEY
/usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4
/usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.3/RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/doc/rpm-4.3.3/BETA-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/rhn/BETA-RPM-GPG-KEY
/usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
/usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
/usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4

# rpm --import /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4

Craig


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