Description of problem: I tried to install Fedora 32 from scratch. I took Fedora-32-20200317.n.1. KS looks like this https://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/kickstart/6609838 As you can see in %post we have check-update. Accordingly to docs - Non-interactively checks if updates of the specified packages are available. ^ This doesn't seem to be right, DNF is actually blocking execution on GPG. However, when I traced down DNF I saw this strace: Process 26508 attached read(0, [anaconda root@kvm-03-guest24 /]# ls -la /proc/26508/fd/0 lrwx------. 1 root root 64 Mar 18 06:51 /proc/26508/fd/0 -> /dev/pts/0 DNF logs [anaconda root@kvm-03-guest24 /]# cat /var/log/dnf.log | tail -n5 2020-03-18T10:33:10Z DEBUG repo: downloading from remote: fedora-cisco-openh264 2020-03-18T10:33:13Z CRITICAL Importing GPG key 0x12C944D0: Userid : "Fedora (32) <fedora-32-primary>" Fingerprint: 97A1 AE57 C3A2 372C CA3A 4ABA 6C13 026D 12C9 44D0 From : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-32-x86_64 [anaconda root@kvm-03-guest24 /]# cat /var/log/dnf.librepo.log | tail -n5 2020-03-18T10:33:08Z INFO Downloading: http://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/repos/8035634/repodata/a26508f0fa2702a7a2684d2b554437d0b994d6fe-primary.xml.gz 2020-03-18T10:33:08Z INFO Downloading: http://beaker.engineering.redhat.com/repos/8035634/repodata/4d30eab1e409eee31ce62c19be36f98ca5c762de-filelists.xml.gz 2020-03-18T10:33:10Z INFO Downloading: https://codecs.fedoraproject.org/openh264/32/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml 2020-03-18T10:33:12Z INFO Downloading: https://codecs.fedoraproject.org/openh264/32/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml.asc 2020-03-18T10:33:13Z INFO Downloading: file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-32-x86_64 How reproducible: Beaker -> Provision latest F32 -> Wait till %post Actual results: dnf check-update hanging for better times. Expected results: dnf check-update will not require input from stdin. Additional info:
When looking at this from an admin perspective, it's probably not a good idea to automatically import GPG keys when running check-updates. In this case, you probably should add -y/--assumeyes to the kickstart. DNF could be changed to fail on importing a key during check-update to make it non-interactive again.
(In reply to Daniel Mach from comment #1) > When looking at this from an admin perspective, > it's probably not a good idea to automatically > import GPG keys when running check-updates. > > In this case, you probably should add -y/--assumeyes to the kickstart. Yes > > DNF could be changed to fail on importing a key during check-update > to make it non-interactive again. I agree. I'm completely fine with failure. Otherwise, docs should be updated accordingly.
So whether this is a sensible thing to do in a kickstart is maybe up for debate, but seems there is a real new problem here. You're not supposed to have to sign off on the import of a GPG key on first use like this, IIRC. This is probably caused by the enabling of the Cisco repo by default, which was https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1807679 . CCing folks from that bug here: were we expecting this kind of trust prompt? Can we make it not happen?
Well, I think this is really https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768206 ? ie, it always prompts for the key import even if it's been imoprted already via rpm --import due to the repodata gpg check being enabled...
oh, so it's because this repo has repo_gpgcheck=1 ?
repo_gpgcheck=1 needs the key to get imported into dnf's databases and not rpm's in order to verify the metadata has not been tampered with, and as the cisco repo bypasses mirrormanager we have no other protection for man in the middle attacks on the repo
Kevin, this is more than bug 1768206. In this case, you have GPGs because it is part of Fedora, however, command itself (check-update) may end up hanging on read(0. Which is against the documentation - "Non-interactively checks if updates of the specified packages are available." So the problem is still there, it is more like how you will achieve it.
I am not a dnf developer, so I have no idea the way they want to solve this. ;) Perhaps dnf could pull gpg keys from rpm if they are already imported there? Or as you say, fail if they have to ask anything in a check-update.
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