Bug 1564079

Summary:	[RFE]: Add details of RPM package signing in RPM Packaging Guide
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Melanie Corr <mcorr>
Component:	doc-Packagers_Guide	Assignee:	Adam Kvitek <akvitek>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:	Petr Kovar <pkovar>
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Version:	7.7-Alt	CC:	msuchy, pkovar, rhel-docs, swadeley
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Description Melanie Corr 2018-04-05 10:03:07 UTC

Document URL: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/rpm_packaging_guide/

Section Number and Name: RPM Packaging Guide

Describe the issue: This guide is missing info on how to sign a package

Suggestions for improvement: Include info on how to sign the package, how to sign it with a GPG key and how to make a GPG copy in ASC format 

Additional information: The RPM packaging guide is fantastic. I have used it step by step with success. The Satellite docs team have a BZ [1] that has a use case which requires the creation of an RPM, signing of that RPM, and uploading to Satellite as custom content. The Satellite part of this is documented, as is the creation of the RPM, however the signing of the RPM seems to be the responsibility of the package creator, so that would probably best fit in the RPM packaging guide. 

Any queries, let me know.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1363863

Comment 3 Miroslav Suchý 2018-04-25 11:11:59 UTC

This is described in 
  https://access.redhat.com/blogs/766093/posts/1976693
and in older:
  http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-pgp-signing-packages.html
  (RH is the copyright holder of this documentation, so you can copy it).

It is definitely better to first build a package and only the sign it with --addsign.

Comment 6 Adam Kvitek 2018-05-30 10:10:13 UTC

New chapter submitted in a pull request: https://github.com/redhat-developer/rpm-packaging-guide/pull/40/files

Comment 7 Adam Kvitek 2018-07-19 16:14:00 UTC

New chapter published on customer portal: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/rpm_packaging_guide/#Signing-Packages