Bug 5597

Summary:	rpm is dislexic (confuses --nopgp with --nogpg
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Everett Lipman <redhat>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	redhat
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Description Everett Lipman 1999-10-05 18:26:38 UTC

rpm --checksig --nopgp -vv netscape-navigator-4.7-1.i386.rpm

gives:

D: New Header signature
D: Signature size: 149
D: Signature pad : 3
D: sigsize         : 152
D: Header + Archive: 3215728
D: expected size   : 3215728
netscape-navigator-4.7-1.i386.rpm:
Header+Archive size OK: 3215728 bytes
MD5 sum OK: cbd99ddb48b79002178d716b579a0054
exec failed!
Could not run gpg.  Use --nogpg to skip GPG checks.

The suggestion actually works; --nogpg prevents the error.
What is GPG ???

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-05 18:49:59 UTC

Gnu Privacy Guard;
http://www.gnupg.org/

It's what the package is actually signed with...