Why does yum update fail with public key not installed during install or disconnected RHN Satellite 5.3 installation ?

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Issue

  • Why does RHN packages install fail, with "Public key for " during disconnected RHN Satellite 5.3 installation ?

        Transaction Summary
        ================================================================================
        Install    260 Package(s)         
        Update       0 Package(s)         
        Remove       0 Package(s)         
        Total size: 1.2 G
        Total download size: 53 M
        Downloading Packages:
        --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        Total                                           2.1 GB/s |  53 MB     00:00     
        warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186
    
        Public key for perl-NOCpulse-Gritch-1.27.4-1.el5sat.noarch.rpm is not installed
    
  • Why does yum update fails with message "Public key for <package> is not installed" ?

    $ yum update
    ...
    Install      22 Package(s) 
    Upgrade       7 Package(s) 
    Total size: 42 M 
    Is this ok [y/N]: y 
    Downloading Packages: 
    attention: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 37017186 
    rhel-x86_64-server-5/gpgkey                              | 1.1 kB     00:00      
    Public key for device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-34.el5.x86_64.rpm is not installed
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3

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