Re: Using yum with unsigned and corrupted packages.

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That makes sense.

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 22:23 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 20:22 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > Some of the packages I'm getting from the repositories are missing
> > signatures (no big deal) or don't match their checksums. (Big deal, in
> > my books)
> > 
> > If one is using yum, one incident of either of these stops the upgrade
> > cold.  (Good thing/bad thing.)  The good thing is that nothing gets
> > installed that shouldn't.  The bad thing is that it rejects all the
> > other packages too.   
> > 
> > Is there a way to proceed with the install, automatically ignoring the
> > unsigned packages and excluding the checksum missing packages ?
> > 
> > Is there a way to have yum query the user for permission to install each
> > package  (and not kill all of them if the user rejects one) ?  BTW this
> > was a pet peeve of mine with up2date as well.   
> > 
> 
> Not really.  B/c you'd have to recalculate all the dependencies
> excluding the packages that have bad signatures or bad checksums.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
-- 
Kim Lux (Mr.)  Diesel Research Inc


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