Bug 23612

Summary: PGP support in RPM documentation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Piet E Barber <pietbarber>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Piet E Barber 2001-01-08 20:05:37 UTC
The RPM manpage says that PGP is currently the only one supported. 

"In order to use the signature feature RPM must be configured to run PGP
[or GPG], and it must be able to find a public key ring with RPM public
keys in it. 

_pgp_path is llisted
but through my testing, _gpg_path also works. 

_signature states that "The Signature type.  Right now only pgp is
supported."
My testing indicated that gpg in that field works fine. 

_pgp_name the name of the "User" whose key you wish to sign your packages. 
Through my testing, i discovered that the 'pgp_name' had to exactly match
the name of the UserID in my gpg public key.  You might want to mention
this.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-01-09 14:51:29 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21289 ***