Re: Rawhide signatures

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On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 20:11 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> walters@xxxxxxxxxx (Colin Walters) writes:
> 
> >> There is a Fedora rawhide key (key ID 1CDDBCA9 I believe), but it's
> >> really not practical right now to sign the packages, because the
> >> rawhide push is completely automated, and signing requires manually
> >> entering a password.
> >
> > Well you can certainly provide the passphrase programatically, something
> > like:
> >
> > echo "my passphrase" 1>&3 | gpg --passphrase-fd=3 ...
> 
> No; rpm does not offer such an interface but expects the passphrase on a
> tty everytime. I solved it for me with an 'expect' wrapper, but it is a
> dirty hack :(
> 
> Overall, the gpg support in rpm is poor as it accepts special signatures
> only[1] and there are no (reliable) tools[2] to check signatures based
> on ordinary gpg keyrings (in opposite to current 'Pubkey' table which
> requires root rights).

Ah, yuck :/

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