Hello.
I see a debate is starting to arise on the benefits of including the EPEL key in RHEL. The
problem I originally wanted to solve when I proposed this, was to avoid the chicken-egg
problem with how to trust the epel-release package that contains the EPEL key if you
don't already have the key. But yes, there is the problem of keeping the keys in sync.
In my opinion it doesn't make much sense to sign a package with a key that is
contained in that very package. So what other approaches are there? Would it be possible
to have epel-release signed by the RHEL key? Would EPEL want to? Would Red Hat do it if
asked nicely?
/David
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