From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:23:10 +1000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="144951"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 13 15:57:52 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hbQEi-000bal-3X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:57:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbQEh-00078p-1l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:57:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34591) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbOlh-00032Z-9R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbOlf-0004Ri-No for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43600 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbOld-0003vq-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hbOlA-000rwv-9o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:23:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:FG5hvFBpwILm3jamdVekOOtC0II= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120932 Archived-At: Nicky Chorley writes: ￨ Well, I upgraded GnuTLS to 3.6.7 (the latest in Slackware's repos), ￨ but nothing changed. I also tried building the latest version of Emacs ￨ (26.2) just to see if it made a difference, but it didn't. ￨ ￨ I also realised that my version of GnuPG 2 is quite old, but don't ￨ know what else is using that. So, I just tried ￨ package-refresh-contents on Emacs 26.2 on a Fedora 30 install (albeit ￨ inside a Docker container), which has a much newer version of GnuPG 2 ￨ (2.2.13). The same problem occurred. ￨ ￨ This is extremely frustrating! Is the 'gnu-elpa-keyring-update' package any help? The blurb says, --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- This package updates the GPG keys used by the ELPA package manager (a.k.a `package.el') to verify authenticity of packages downloaded from the GNU ELPA archive. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- © 2019 Van L gpg using EEF2 37E9 3840 0D5D 9183 251E 9830 384E 9683 B835 "you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out" - Donald J. Trump