Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent

[Van L]

Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com> 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---



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