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Sidekick

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Registered: 2024-06-23

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[Solved]Unknown public key when trying to fetch sources for the kernel

Hi,

I'm attempting to use the Arch way of modifying and building a kernel.

I'm following these two wiki articles:

How to build the linux kernel on Arch
How to create a patch

I'm stuck on running

makepkg --nobuild --nodeps

to fetch the source code. The error I get is

linux-6.9.8.tar ... FAILED (Unknown public key 38DBBDC86092693E)
linux-v6.9.8-arch1.patch.zst ... FAILED (Unknown public key B8AC08600F108CDF)

To make sure I had the newest keys I reset the keys and then ran

pacman-key --refresh-keys

. This did not change the error message. I did a google search for the first key and it appears to belong to GKH but shouldn't it then be fetched by the latter command?

I am aware that I could just add the key by hand but before I do that I'd like to understand why I have to do that when it seemingly is a key that belongs to someone as important and high up the 'food chain' as GKH.

Last edited by Sidekick (2024-07-29 12:49:15)

ugjka

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Re: [Solved]Unknown public key when trying to fetch sources for the kernel

--skippgpcheck

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved]Unknown public key when trying to fetch sources for the kernel

pacman-key has nothing to do with this, pacman has nothing to do with this.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepk … e_checking

gromit

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Re: [Solved]Unknown public key when trying to fetch sources for the kernel

@ugjka: that is not a solution

You'll have to import the gpg keys in your user keyring i.e. by doing a "gpg --import keys/gpg/*" or "gpg --recv-keys <key-id>".

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepk … e_checking

Sidekick

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Registered: 2024-06-23

Posts: 36

Re: [Solved]Unknown public key when trying to fetch sources for the kernel

pacman-key has nothing to do with this, pacman has nothing to do with this.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepk … e_checking

oh, ok. Thank you!

@ugjka: that is not a solution

You'll have to import the gpg keys in your user keyring i.e. by doing a "gpg --import keys/gpg/*" or "gpg --recv-keys <key-id>".

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepk … e_checking

yeah, I found how to import it by hand I just didn't understand why that is neccessary, but Scimmia explained it. Thanks though!

Last edited by Sidekick (2024-07-29 12:46:45)