Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:37:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > What about: > sudo (command_1 | command_2) Won't work -- the ()s are shell metacharacters, and sudo knows nothing about them. What you would need to do this with j

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/07 21:44, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> David Fox wrote: >> >>> It might be worth mentioning that "sudo" doesn't work across pipes: >>> >>> For instance: >>> >>> sudo command_1 | command_2 >>> >>> The first command wi

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: David Fox wrote: It might be worth mentioning that "sudo" doesn't work across pipes: For instance: sudo command_1 | command_2 The first command will be run as root, but the second will be run with normal user permissions. You can probably get around that by enc

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
David Fox wrote: > > It might be worth mentioning that "sudo" doesn't work across pipes: > > For instance: > > sudo command_1 | command_2 > > The first command will be run as root, but the second will be run with > normal user permissions. You can probably get around that by enclosing > the ent

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-23 Thread David Fox
On 9/23/07, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I had run as root, it probably would have worked, but I used sudo. > This only runs the first command as root (I believe), so the command > 'apt-key add - ' was run as a normal user and did not like that. Using It might be worth mentioning

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I followed the instructions on the backports instruction page: If you are using *etch* and you want apt to verify the downloaded backports you can import backports.org archive’s key into apt: gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net -

Etch-backports and gpg problems

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Etch and I want to install the alpine package from etch-backports. I also want to verify the downloaded files. I followed the instructions on the backports instruction page: If you are using *etch* and you want apt to verify the downloaded