On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 3:58:01 PM EDT Trevor Vaughan wrote:
Necromancing this thread!
Any updates on this Steve?
The answer I was given is like this:
"The keys for checking repo. metadata are only used for those repos.
(so key for repo X can't verify metadata for repo. Y). There are also
CA keys, so you can cycle keys etc. The keys for rpm checking are imported
into the rpm DB and thus. global, but that's an rpm thing."
So, I don't think rpm/yum were intended to solve the security problem you
outlined because its now how software distribution normally works. And if two
repos have the same package, I think you will notice some kind of error/
warning. Feel free to open some kind of request. I also think the dnf
developers may have things a little better security-wise.
-Steve