On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 09:42:37PM +0100, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2002, Matthias Kurz wrote:
> 
> > When i try to verify the pgp signature of a src.rpm, i always get
> > "MD5 sum OK: ...." - nothing with pgp.
> > E.g.:
> > rpm -v --checksig mutt-1.4i-20021230.src.rpm
> > mutt-1.4i-20021230.src.rpm:
> > MD5 sum OK: cd03b408c67b07ac7720cae8ee02e246
> >
> > I installed gpg, imported the pgp public key and set "$_signature pgp"
> > in my $HOME/.rpmmacros.
> >
> > What am i doing wrong ?
> 
> Only RPMs of OpenPKG _releases_ are signed. The OpenPKG-CURRENT RPMs
> are not signed -- mainly because signing requires the OpenPKG master
> key which is not available all the time while developers working
> on OpenPKG-CURRENT packages. It is only available in the release
> engineering process.

So, how can one validate a "current" package. MD5 sums _in_ the package
do not look very secure to me :)
Especially, what about openpkg-*.src.sh ?


   (mk)

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