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rpmsign - RPM Package Signing

rpmsign {--addsign|--resign} [options] [sign-options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

rpmsign --delsign [options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

rpmsign --delfilesign [options] PACKAGE_FILE ...

rpmsign is used to manipulate digital OpenPGP signatures on rpm package files.

To create a signature rpmsign needs to verify the package's checksum. As a result V4 packages with MD5/SHA1 checksums cannot be signed in FIPS mode.

--addsign

Generate and insert a new OpenPGP signature for each PACKAGE_FILE given unless a signature with identical parameters already exists, in which case no action is taken. Arbitrary number of V6 signatures can be added.

--resign

Generates and inserts a new OpenPGP signature for each PACKAGE_FILE, replacing any and all previous signatures.

--delsign

Delete all OpenPGP signatures from each package PACKAGE_FILE given.

--delfilesign

Delete all IMA and fsverity file signatures from each package PACKAGE_FILE given.

PACKAGE_FILE

An rpm package file.

See rpm-common(8) for the options common to all rpm executables.

--certpath CERT

Used with --signverity, use file signing certificate CERT.

--fskpath KEY

Used with --signfiles, use file signing key KEY.

--key-id KEYID

Use key KEYID for signing. Overrides %_openpgp_sign_id configuration.

--rpmv3

Request RPM V3 header+payload signature addition on V4 packages. These signatures are expensive and redundant baggage on packages where a separate payload digest exists (packages built with rpm >= 4.14). Rpmsign will automatically detect the need for V3 signatures, but this option can be used to request their creation if the packages must be fully signature verifiable with rpm < 4.14 or other interoperability reasons.

Has no effect when signing V6 packages.

--rpmv4

Request RPM V4 header signature addition on V6 packages. Useful for making V6 packages signature verifiable with rpm 4.x versions.

V4 compatibility signatures are only ever added if the signing algorithm is one of those known to V4: RSA, EcDSA, EdDSA (and original DSA). Only one V4 signature can be present in a package, so this is added only on the first --addsign with a V4 compatible algorithm, and ignored otherwise.

Has no effect when signing V4 packages.

--rpmv6

Request RPM V6 header signature addition on V4 packages.

This generally always succeeds as there can be arbitrary number of V6 signatures on a package. A V3/V4 compatibility signatures are added using the same logic as --rpmv4 on a V6 package.

Has no effect when signing V6 packages.

--signfiles

Sign package files. The file signing key (RSA private key) must be set before signing the package, it can be configured on the command line with --fskpath or the macro %_file_signing_key.

--signverity

Sign package files with fsverity signatures. The file signing key (RSA private key) and the signing certificate must be set before signing the package. The key can be configured on the command line with --fskpath or the macro %_file_signing_key, and the cert can be configured on the command line with --certpath or the macro %_file_signing_cert.

--verityalgo ALG

Used with --signverity, to specify the signing algorithm. sha256 and sha512 are supported, with sha256 being the default if this argument is not specified. This can also be specified with the macro %_verity_algorithm.

In order to sign packages, you need to create your own OpenPGP key pair (aka certificate) and configure rpm(8) to use it. The following macros are available:

%_openpgp_sign_id

The fingerprint or keyid of the signing key to use. Typically this is the only configuration needed. If omitted, --key-id must be explicitly specified when signing.

%_openpgp_sign

The OpenPGP implementation to use for signing. Supported values are "gpg" for GnuPG (default and traditional) and "sq" for Sequoia PGP.

Implementation specific macros:

%_gpg_path

The location of your GnuPG keyring if not the default $GNUPGHOME.

%_gpg_name

Legacy macro for configuring user id with GnuPG. Use the implementation independent and non-ambiguous %_openpgp_sign_id instead.

%_sq_path

The location of your Sequoia configuration if not the default.

Configure RPM to sign packages with Sequoia PGP and a specific key by adding the following contents to the user's rpm-config(5) file (typically ~/.config/rpm/macros):

%_openpgp_sign sq
%_openpgp_sign_id 7B36C3EE0CCE86EDBC3EFF2685B274E29F798E08

rpmsign --addsign hello-2.0-1.x64_rpm

Add a signature to hello-2.0-1.x64_rpm package.

rpmsign --resign --key-id 771b18d3d7baa28734333c424344591e1964c5fc hello-2.0-1.x64_rpm

Replace all signatures in hello-2.0-1.x64_rpm package by a signature using key 771b18d3d7baa28734333c424344591e1964c5fc.

rpmsign --delsign --delfilesign hello-2.0-1.x64_rpm

Delete all signatures from hello-2.0-1.x64_rpm package.

On success, 0 is returned, a nonzero failure code otherwise.

popt(3), rpm(8), rpm-common(8), rpmkeys(8), rpmbuild(1)

rpmsign --help - as rpm supports customizing the options via popt aliases it's impossible to guarantee that what's described in the manual matches what's available.

http://www.rpm.org/

2026-01-08 RPM 6.0.1