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Discussion on: Advanced usage of yum-config-manager with setopts

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Thomas H Jones II

Usually, just installing the -release RPM takes care of things like any necessary GPG key-imports. Our primary usage of yum-config-manager is when a third-party repository needs to be permanently enabled (and the release-RPM doesn't default to enabling the installed repository definition(s)).

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rndmh3ro

Usually, just installing the -release RPM takes care of things like any necessary GPG key-imports

Yeah, usually. However with Ansible (or our self-created repos) that's not always the case, sadly.

Our primary usage of yum-config-manager is when a third-party repository needs to be permanently enabled (and the release-RPM doesn't default to enabling the installed repository definition(s)).

That's a good use-case, too!

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Thomas H Jones II

When you build your self-created repos, you don't include the requisite verification keys' installation and enablement within the release-RPMs that define those repos to your client systems?

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rndmh3ro

Well, with "our repos" I meant our companies repo's, managed by someone else who does not do this. So - yeah.

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Thomas H Jones II

My condolences. Seems the number of people that know how to maintain a custom yum repository hosting custom RPMs is quite small ...smaller, even, than the already small number of people that know how to create RPMs (let alone properly sign one).