On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:24 PM, David Juran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I see a debate is starting to arise on the benefits of including the EPEL key 
> in RHEL. The problem I originally wanted to solve when I proposed this, was 
> to avoid the chicken-egg problem with how to trust the epel-release package 
> that contains the EPEL key if you don't already have the key. But yes, there 
> is the problem of keeping the keys in sync.
>  In my opinion it doesn't make much sense to sign a package with a key that 
> is contained in that very package. So what other approaches are there? Would 
> it be possible to have epel-release signed by the RHEL key? Would EPEL want 
> to? Would Red Hat do it if asked nicely?
>
> /David
>
David, that is an excellent point.  I will follow up with that next
week.  (Travelling this week).

stahnma
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