Beta Alerts

First off, what to do in this thread. The thread is for posting alerts about problems that may not have been discovered yet. Let me give you an example.

I recently discovered that cairo-1.1.6-6.3 from jarpack breaks smart gui. It complains about no python gtk, when it is installed. Solution, back cairo down to the version that came with the distro.


If you have any other alerts you think we should be aware of, please post them here. Before adding an alert, please start a thread, so that the problem can be confirmed and verified. All non verified posts will be moved from this thread, to either start it's own thread or if one exists, then merged with that.

Recently the keyserver feature was added to smart and is considered a beta feature and is not officially supported by smart. The keyserver does not import the gpg key to the rpm database if it's a new key. Instead it get's saved to the /home/user directory. You can use the manual rpm command to import the key

rpm --import <keyfile.asc>

To follow the development of the keyserver, look here http://lists.labix.org/pipermail/smart-lab...ember/date.html

here a little step by step to do this:

0.) check the rpm with rpm -qi package-name | grep Packager
==> name of packager
==> searchprase for key-server
if the name is not useable
check the rpm with rpm -qi package-name | grep Signature
==> Signature : DSA/SHA1, So 03 Sep 2006 00:56:42 CEST, Key ID af734c5a58857177
==> Key-ID af734c5a58857177 as search string (prefix it with 0x)

1.) go to http://pgp.mit.edu
2.) enter search phrase e.g. oc2pus
this results in:

Public Key Server -- Index ``oc2pus ''

Type bits /keyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/1DFA8F0C 2004/09/24 oc2pus zuhause (may the source be with you) <oc2pus_AT_arcor.de>[/b]

3.) klick on "1DFA8F0C "
4.) mark the text between ----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- and -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
save this as keyfile.asc

hope this makes it a little bit clearer ? otherwise come to the IRC channel and we'll try to help you

if you search a key by "number" you must prefix it with 0x !
eg:
0x1DFA8F0C