On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:09:54 +0200, Mihai Maties <mihai@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Issue at short: > > I would like to find out if there is a way to provide the passphrase > automatically to rpm so when signing multiple packages I wouldn't have to > type the passphrase again and again. > > Issue at large: > > I have a script that builds some rpms and then group them in sfx sh installers > (rpm.run). The tricky thing is that the script works like this: > > 10. build a few rpms > 20. turn all of them into 1 rpm.run file > 30. cleanup > 40. goto 10 until all the rpm.run files are created > > I wouldn't have a problem to type the passphrase if it would sign all rpms in > one session, but this is not possible because the script only builds a few > rpms at the time. So if I would have the following line: > > 15. sign the built rpms > > I would still need to type the passphrase for every rpm.run file (about 20 > times). > > It would be kind of hard to rewrite the script to build all the rpms first and > then turn them progressively to rpm.run so the only acceptable way would be > to somehow pass the passphrase to rpm. I know that rpm does not work with > gpg-agent, so is there any other way to trick it to not request the > passphrase anymore ? > > My planned alternatives would be: > 1. ask you guys (duh!) > 2. using 'expect' (I hope it works, I never used it before) > 3. patch rpm to not request the passphrase anymore > Expect will work fine, but, just so you know there is a Perl module Expect.pm, which if your more comfortable with perl rather than tcl you may prefer. Don't know if there is a similar lib for python. Cheers...james > Mihai > > -- > This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. > For more information please visit http://linux.bitdefender.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
