a little fedora help

[Tim Wunder]

On 12/1/2004 11:06 PM, I believe that Collins Richey wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:51:01 -0700, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Just for grins, I decided to put up a copy of FC3. Install seemed to
>>go ok, and I've got a usable copy of firefox running, which means I
>>have email. FC3 didn't setup my sound card, which is not too
>>surprising.
>>
>>I thought to see if there were any updates, so I ran
>>
>>yum check-update (ran ok, list of updates produced)
>>yum update (failed with the following:
>>
>>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.
>>
>>OK, so I did
>>rpm --import public.gpg.key
>>
>>This failed with:
>>error: public.gpg.key: import read failed.
>>
>>What do I do?
>>
> 
> 
> Well, I found the gpgcheck=1 in all the yum.conf files and fixed if,
> so 'yum update' is now proceeding. But I still would like to know how
> to handle this with cpgcheck=1.
> 
> 

Did you download and use the public gpg key from the repository you're using 
or did you actually type "public.gpg.key?"

HTH,
TIm