Re: Should Fedora rpms be signed?

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On Oct 26, 2004, Elliot Lee <sopwith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, nodata wrote:
>> Packages for Fedora Core test (rawhide) aren't always signed.
>> 
>> Why?

> If you can come up with a script to sign .rpm's without typing in a
> password, I'll be happy to look at it.

That's easy.  AFAIK, you could just have a signing key without a
passphrase, or have the passphrase encoded in plain text in an expect
script that runs rpm --resign.  But would you really want to do that?

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