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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:11:28 +0100, Nigel Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote about Re: [newbie] Installing downloaded rpm packages:

>I believe this means there is no signiture in the rpm package. I normally
>get a warning message with the option to stop or continue anyway. If there
>is no pgp signature in the package you can't check it so either continue
>anyway or don't get it. I have always just continued anyway with no problem
>so far.

Personally I find the programme has one shortcoming: if there is no GPG
signature, it does not tell whether or not the MD5 checksum is okay or not.
For that reason - when rpmdrake shows there is no GPG signature - I do an
rpm -K *.rpm from the console, to at least verify that the checksum is okay.

HTH
Regards,
=Dick Gevers=

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