Bug 1810729

Summary: Please update to Emacs 26.3 to fix expired ELPA signing key
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Michel Lind <michel>
Component: emacsAssignee: Jacek Migacz <jmigacz>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal>
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Version: 8.4CC: fsumsal
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Description Michel Lind 2020-03-05 19:38:05 UTC
Description of problem:
The signing key for ELPA in Emacs < 26.3 has expired, causing any attempt to install packages from that repository to fail

See e.g. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/11273

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
emacs-26.1-5.el8.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Spacemacs
2. emacs --debug-init

Actual results:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (bad-signature "archive-contents.sig")
  signal(bad-signature ("archive-contents.sig"))

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Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 20:03:58 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (emacs bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:4501