From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Running yum update tells you to run rpm --import, but that command doesn't work so yum fails. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.1.11-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start kde 2. Start terminal 3. Run yum update Run advised rpm --import Actual Results: error: public.gpg.key: import read failed. Expected Results: Yum should download patches Additional info: [root@njh RPMS]# yum update You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing. However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download the keys for packages you wish to install and install them. You can do that by running the command: rpm --import public.gpg.key For more information contact your distribution or package provider. [root@njh RPMS]# rpm --import public.gpg.key error: public.gpg.key: import read failed. [root@njh RPMS]#
Further investigation shows that the error message should have said: rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEY NOT rpm --import public.gpg.key
Closing this as steps taken in the yum code now provide a better solution than this.