I'm also very confused on this. Wasn't this part of the Red Hat recommended security settings?
As far as I can tell, DNF does nothing different for repo metadata. Andrew On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 14:13 Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote: > Who should I open the request with? > > I haven't really seen any differences in DNF from that point of view in > Fedora yet. > > Thanks, > > Trevor > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:15 PM Steve Grubb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 3:58:01 PM EDT Trevor Vaughan wrote: >> > Necromancing this thread! >> > >> > Any updates on this Steve? >> >> The answer I was given is like this: >> >> "The keys for checking repo. metadata are only used for those repos. >> (so key for repo X can't verify metadata for repo. Y). There are also >> CA keys, so you can cycle keys etc. The keys for rpm checking are >> imported >> into the rpm DB and thus. global, but that's an rpm thing." >> >> So, I don't think rpm/yum were intended to solve the security problem you >> outlined because its now how software distribution normally works. And if >> two >> repos have the same package, I think you will notice some kind of error/ >> warning. Feel free to open some kind of request. I also think the dnf >> developers may have things a little better security-wise. >> >> -Steve >> >> >> >> > > -- > Trevor Vaughan > Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc > (410) 541-6699 x788 > > -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- > _______________________________________________ > scap-security-guide mailing list -- > [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to > [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/archives/list/[email protected] >
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