-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3rc2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/QXfowC/zk+cxEdMRAkQ2AJ9Cc7oeAThfmGPHFLRcp4+rVU8tnQCgx/Am 0Q9EN9kKu/EjNzV3S5xH8U4= =QZq9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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