FS#60462 - [pacman] errors with Package Missing Required Signature

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Jeff (jvandrew) - Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 21:41 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 22:10 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: The current version of this package cannot be downloaded by pacman. Manually downloading the package and running pacman on the local file generates this error:

error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libidn11-1.33-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz': package missing required signature



Additional info:
* package version(s): libidn11-1.33-1-x86_64


Steps to reproduce:

sudo pacman -Syu libidn11

sudo pacman -U file:///home/path/path/libidn11-1.33-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 22:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 22:09 GMT
This is due to the default pacman.conf settings, which require a signature for urls, whereas paths work fine.

file:/// is a type of url, it's not a filepath.

Also, this is not a bugreport against the package in question, it's pretty blatantly pacman itself doing it. Still not a bug, though.

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