Once upon a time Wednesday 22 November 2006 6:09 am, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 21:21, Douglas Hubler wrote: > >> The Fedora website > >> http://fedora.redhat.com/About/security/ > >> mentions Fedora builds are automatically signed. How is this done? rpm > >> --addsign requires user input and is not gpg-aware > >> http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2004-January/021302.html > > > > You can automate it by not putting a password on the gpgkey. most of the > > rpms are manually signed for this reason. and all of extras are manually > > signed. the only automated signed would be in rawhide and i think they > > are generally not signed at all. > > iirc, even with a blank passwd, rpm's default behavior is to ask for a > password anyway, > > 'expect' knows what to do :)
ive never tried so im not 100% sure. i had assumed that if i put no password on the key i wouldnt be prompted. but i would not trust a situation like that so i wont impose that on my users. :) Dennis -- Fedora-buildsys-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-buildsys-list
