signature check fails doing yum update

[Konstantin Riabitsev]

Rick Thomas wrote:
> "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" is perfectly happy.  It does the 
> update without a whimper.
> 
> Does "apt" not check signatures?  I can't find any mention of signatures 
> in any of the apt man pages.  Where am I not looking?

To my knowledge, apt does not do signature checks because .deb 
package format does not have a notion of package signing.

Your yum questions are probably better answered on the yum list. See 
http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
www.phy.duke.edu/~icon/pubkey.asc