Bug 636557

Summary: Uninformative prompt for root password to install untrusted packages
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Component: gnome-packagekitAssignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Daniel Berrangé 2010-09-22 14:39:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
When doing a software update with gnome-packagekit, I was shown a dialog saying

 "The software is not from a trusted source. Do not update this package unless you are sure it is safe todo so.... Password for root:..."

This message does not give me sufficient information to decide whether I should enter my root password to allow the install to continue or not.

At a minimum I wish to know 'Which package NEVR ?' and 'Which repository?'.  If this is an existing package that's being upgraded, I also wish to know whether the currently installed package comes from the same repository, and whether the current package is signed. ie, if a current signed package is about to be updated with an unsigned one, I really want to know about that.

By good fortune in this case there was only 1 package being updated, so I could look at the previous packagekit dialog to see the cause. I still couldn't tell what repo it came from, or whether the previous version was signed. I had to switch to the command line and run 'yum' manually to determine whether everything was safe to update.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-packagekit-2.30.3-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a custom repo to /etc/yum.repos.d
2. Populate the repo with newer versions of some core Fedora packages, but without a signature.
3. Let package kit update run
  
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Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2011-06-03 12:33:41 UTC 
Fedora 14 still doesn't provide enough informative data on which to make the authentication decision.
Comment 3 Daniel Berrangé 2011-06-03 12:36:31 UTC 
Created attachment 502803 [details]
Screenshot demonstrating the issue

From the info provided in these two dialog boxes I cannot determine which packages are 'untrusted', nor what aspect of them makes PK consider them untrusted. In this case is it firefox4 which is not trusted because it comes from a 3rd party repo and isn't gpg signed, but PK doesn't seem to be able to tell me that.
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