Re: PGP verification of package-index files

APA> gpg: Signature made 07/30/99 03:48:55 using DSA key ID DCF80B6B APA> gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found SY> OK, I think I know what's going on. SY> Do this: SY> - delete, move or otherwise get rid of: SY> /usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.5-b3/etc/package-index.LATEST* SY> ~/.xemacs/package-index.LATEST* SY> (so they don't get in our way) Did that. SY> - run xemacs -vanilla SY> (so we're on a clean slate) OK. SY> - M-: (setq package-get-required-signed-base-updates t) RET package-get-require-signed-base-updates works better :-) SY> - Tools -> Packages -> Add Download Site -> Pre-Releases SY> - Tools -> Packages -> List and Install SY> How does that go? Hi Steve, Doing it via the menus fails, because the dialog box complains if the destination package-index.LATEST* does not exist. Doing it via M-x package-get-update-base I get this: Signaling: (error "Can't find a suitable pgp executable") signal(error ("Can't find a suitable pgp executable")) cerror("Can't find a suitable pgp executable") apply(cerror "Can't find a suitable pgp executable" nil) error("Can't find a suitable pgp executable") package-get-update-base-from-buffer(#<buffer "*package database*">) #<compiled-function (&optional db-file force-current) "...(62)" [force-current buf db-file expand-file-name package-get-locate-index-file file-exists-p error "Package-get database file `%s' does not exist" file-readable-p "Package-get database file `%s' not readable" get-buffer-create "*package database*" (...) erase-buffer insert-file-contents-literally package-get-update-base-from-buffer file-remote-p package-get-maybe-save-index] 3 ("c:\\Hacking\\XEmacs\\xemacs-21.5\\lisp\\package-get.elc" . 10952) (let (...) (list ...))>("/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/package-index.LATEST.gpg") call-interactively(package-get-update-base) command-execute(package-get-update-base t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) edebug-defun on package-get-update-base-from-buffer reveals that exec-suffix-list is nil in xemacs -vanilla Setting it to: (".COM" ".EXE" ".BAT" ".CMD" ".VBS" ".VBE" ".JS" ".JSE" ".WSF" ".WSH") I get this now: Signaling: (error "Can't locate a package index file.") signal(error ("Can't locate a package index file.")) cerror("Can't locate a package index file.") apply(cerror "Can't locate a package index file." nil) error("Can't locate a package index file.") package-get-locate-index-file(t) package-get-maybe-save-index("/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/package-index.LATEST.gpg") #<compiled-function (&optional db-file force-current) "...(62)" [force-current buf db-file expand-file-name package-get-locate-index-file file-exists-p error "Package-get database file `%s' does not exist" file-readable-p "Package-get database file `%s' not readable" get-buffer-create "*package database*" (...) erase-buffer insert-file-contents-literally package-get-update-base-from-buffer file-remote-p package-get-maybe-save-index] 3 ("c:\\Hacking\\XEmacs\\xemacs-21.5\\lisp\\package-get.elc" . 10952) (let (...) (list ...))>("/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/package-index.LATEST.gpg") call-interactively(package-get-update-base) command-execute(package-get-update-base t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) After copying from /anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages: Copying package-index.LATEST.gpg to c:\Users\AichnerAd\.xemacs\...done I get this when I do M-x package-get-update-base PGP version set to GPG. Verifying... BAD SIGNATURE claiming to be from 'nil' Got 91 package-get database entries Updated package-get database SY> -- SY> |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| SY> | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | SY> | It's a way of life. | SY> |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---| -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/