OT? rpm --checksig problem

[David R. Bergstein]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:35 pm, engage wrote:
> Even though the public keys are on the keyring, running rpm --checksig on
> packages tell me that the key is missing. I tried downloading the packages
> from a different mirror but get the same problem. I even tried rpm --import
> <pubkey> but that didn't help either. This began after a fresh install of
> Mandrake 9.2 (was running 9.0). GnuPG 1.2.3-3.1.92mdk.
>

You may need to see if the path for the public keyring that RPM uses in MDK 
9.2 is different than 9.0.   On my MDK 9.0 systems, the file that controls 
this behaviour is /etc/rpm/macros (see below for sample).

# /etc/rpm/macros
%_signature     gpg
%_gpg_path      /etc/rpm-keys


David R. Bergstein
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OpenPGP Public Key 0xE1F138CA - For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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