On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:48:31 -0400
Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> I'm actually a bit concerned about this thread, because I assumed DNF4
> and DNF5 would check signatures by default today, and that it would
> only skip if `--nogpgcheck` was passed as an option. If it sometimes
> skips the GPG check without that flag, that seems like a serious
> security bug to me. I would expect the same level of signature
> verification for both `dnf install mypackage` and `wget mypackage.rpm
> && dnf localinstall mypackage.rpm`.
> 
> After all, there is no documented flag to force a GPG signature check,
> only the flag to omit the check (`--nogpgcheck`). So, users really
> have to rely on the default behavior of always checking GPG signatures
> if they want DNF to check them. If DNF is not doing that, that's
> really bad, because there's no way for users to force it to check
> them.

Maybe not using dnf, but you can check it using rpm directly:

$ wget mypackage.rpm
$ rpm --checksig mypackage.rpm

Regards, Paul.
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