V Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:32:09PM +0100, Fabio Valentini napsal(a):
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 4:24 PM Petr Pisar <ppi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > DNF5 got a complaint
> > <https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/issues/991> that "dnf 
> > update
> > https://..."; skips verifying package signatures:
> >
> >     $ sudo dnf update 
> > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/gnome-control-center/45.1/2.fc40/data/signed/a15b79cc/x86_64/gnome-control-center-45.1-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm
> >  
> > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/gnome-control-center/45.1/2.fc40/data/signed/a15b79cc/noarch/gnome-control-center-filesystem-45.1-2.fc40.noarch.rpm
> >     [...]
> >     Warning: skipped PGP checks for 2 package(s).
> >
> > A DNF5 developer confirmed that old DNF4 does not verify signatures too.
> > The verification happens only for packages comming from a repository. Why 
> > DNF5
> > looks bad is because it actually prints the warning and thus keeps the user
> > better informed.
> >
> > The nonchecking behavior probably exists to make installing local packages
> > easy. If DNF5 would insist on checking the signatures, Fedora users would 
> > have
> > to pass --no-gpgchecks option to their "dnf5" commands to override the new
> > default, or start signing their packages. As always security is not easy.
> >
> > Because this an old behavior and some users probably depend on it, enabling
> > the verification for all cases looks like an abrupt change.
> >
> > I would would like to hear your opinion: Should DNF5 start verifying all
> > packages? Should DNF5 keep ignoring signatures for out-of-repository 
> > packages?
> > Or should rather narrow the verification skip to packages from a local file
> > system? Any other options?
> 
> I wonder - how would DNF (4 or 5 doesn't matter) know how to check that at 
> all?
> I mean, if the package isn't associated with a repository (like
> installing an RPM directly), which GPG key should it even be checked
> against?
> 
Against any key already existing in an RPM database (rpm -qa | grep gpg-pubkey).

-- Petr

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