This release contains one security fix. If you need this, for now please get it directly from http://code.google.com/p/sbopkg/.

Link to full announcement.

thanks slakmagik, gonna try it soon (already built a package with sspm).

Thanks

Thanks.
P.S.
Spent 5 minutes wondering who ANN is, and why she needs to know about a sbopkg update.

Have used sbopkg many times with no issues. Now I'm getting the following message after syncing with the repository:

unsafe ownership on configuration file '/home/pat/.g
external program calls are disabled due to unsafe options fil
keyserver communications error: general error
WARNING: unable to fetch URL http://www.slackbuilds.org/GPG-K
Import done

All files in /home/pat are owned by patat. Where do I look to fix this?
Even better - what am I trying to fix?

patostevens: never seen that but it's probably a gpg/gnupg error. Try 'chmod 600 ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf' if it's not already. -- Actually, wait a minute. You're getting a message about /home/pat/? You should be running sbopkg as root (at this point) and it should be looking at /root/.gnupg/gpg.conf, and that should be root:root/600.

brianL: sorry about that.

piratesmack: welcome

ponce: great, thanks!

At first I thought she might be su and PAM's sister.

Is she also HAL's sister?

I think HAL's their big brother. Creator of the famous computer which he named after himself, but which obviously wasn't running Slackware (might have been Windows 2001?).

I am running sbopkg as root. I have tried playing with ownership of /home/pat/.gnupg and it's files to no avail. It doesn't who owns what, the same error comes up. Also, ownerships in the ~/.gnupg are all root:root.

Also I have removed and re-installed sbopkg - same issue.

Any other ideas?

Like I say, /home/pat/* shouldn't have anything to do with this and it's not just the ownership, but the perms - root:root with the .gnupg dir as 700 and files as 600. Re-installing sbopkg won't have any effect because it's not an sbopkg problem. Somehow gpg seems to be running as the wrong user. What may be the problem may also be a solution: do you have GNUPGHOME set anywhere or have 'gpg' aliased/functioned/scripted to anything else? If so, unset it or clear the other stuff out so it runs the correct command. If not, try making sure the perms and ownership on /root/.gnupg and its files are correct and then run 'GNUPGHOME=/root/.gnupg sbopkg'. That command just makes explicit what ought to be the default.

pat, try becoming root with
instead of the bare
this way you should get the right environment variables.

Thanks slakmagic - your suggestion to run the GNUPGHOME command seems to have fixed it. I have no idea what caused the issue as I try never to mess with the settings like that. Oh well, probably demons from the 7th circle of M$ hell attacked my system. Thanks for the help everyone.

I don't know what caused it, either, but I'm glad it's working for you now.