Description of problem: when running yum install emacs there is a message: Package emacs-common-22.1-6.fc8.i386.rpm is not signed and emacs will not load. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: I have run it twice. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install emacs 2. 3. Actual results: emacs fails to install Expected results: emacs installs Additional info:
From some further exploration I find 1. There are a number of other packages e.g. gcc-c++ which are unsigned. 2. Not all packages are signed. 3. This check can be turned off but it is not clear how. The error message is extremely unhelpful, as I have been running yum update and installed a lot of packages, and now I want to add some more and they will not load because of this. There should be a more helpful message including instructions about the options. This is particularly so as it does not happen with Fedora 7. Thanks John
I find in yum help what is needed is yum --nogpgcheck install emacs The error message talks about signing and not gpgcheck. It needs a connection which is in the mind of the experienced. Please rectify this in yum. Thank you John
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 355331 ***