Why is yum's gpgcheck option not working in RHEL 6?

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Issue

I set gpgcheck=1 in my /etc/yum.conf file and in all repositories, yet I am able to install packages that are not signed or for which the signature is not imported in the RPM keychain. Why?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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