On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 19:39 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 17:37 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > so if we're checking the repomd.xml for a gpg signature - why do we have
> > to check package signatures, too?
> 
> Because we're paranoid.  And just because the repomd.xml is signed
> doesn't give any guarantees at all about what key the packages were
> signed with.
> 

Well, to be clear we don't check which key a package is signed with now.
Only that the key it is signed with is in the rpmdb.

That narrows the field, of course.

-sv



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