Re:Use the script already there.. Is anyone else getting a bad signature from kernel.org's 5.8 sources+Greg's sign?

[Bhaskar Chowdhury]

On 20:59 Wed 05 Aug 2020, David Niklas wrote:
> Hello,
> I downloaded the kernel sources from kernel.org using curl, then
> opera, and finally lynx (to rule out an html parsing bug). I did the same
> with the sign and I keep getting:
>
> %  gpg2 --verify linux-5.8.tar.sign linux-5.8.tar.xz
> gpg: Signature made Mon Aug  3 00:19:13 2020 EDT
> gpg:                using RSA key 647F28654894E3BD457199BE38DBBDC86092693E
> gpg: BAD signature from "Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" [unknown]
>
> I did refresh all the keys just in case.
> I believe this is important so I'm addressing this to the signer and only
> CC'ing the list.
>
> If I'm made some simple mistake, feel free to send SIG666 to my terminal.
> I did re-read the man page just in case.
>
> Thanks,
> David

You should be using this script to download and verify kernel from
kernel.org ...it there for a reason , please use it...which take away
all the manual labor ..

Here is pointer to get the script :

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git/tree/get-verified-tarball

Thanks,
Bhaskar

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