Bug 21236

Summary:	"Bad security signature" dialog isn't as helpful as it could be
Product:	PackageKit	Reporter:	James Livingston <doclivingston>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description James Livingston 2009-04-16 16:29:19 UTC

Recently packagekit-gnome got invoked after I clicked the "install all updates" button on the "security updates available" notification. After thinking about the dependencies for a while, it popped up a less than helpful "Bad security signature" warning dialog.

Some of the issues I have with the dialog are:
1. The dialog gives no indication of which package(s) have bad signatures, only that at least one does.
2. The two buttons in the dialog are "close" and "force install". It isn't obvious what "close" does - install nothing? install the other packages? close the dialog and open up a package-selection window?
3. Afterwards, opening the package review window yourself still doesn't tell you which one had the bad signature. The only way I could figure out which one had the problem was by doing binary-search style package installs.

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2009-04-21 05:07:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. The dialog gives no indication of which package(s) have bad signatures, only
> that at least one does.

commit 269207b8e3cffbb0d43a3c1d45dce08b5b8e8988
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Tue Apr 21 13:05:02 2009 +0100

    Show the package name in the repo-signature dialog. Fixes fd#21236

> 2. The two buttons in the dialog are "close" and "force install". It isn't
> obvious what "close" does - install nothing? install the other packages? close
> the dialog and open up a package-selection window?

It's now Cancel in master.

Thanks!

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