slackpkg gpg signature on CHECKSUMS.md5 failed!
 

ERROR: Verification of the gpg signature on CHECKSUMS.md5
failed! This could mean that the file is out of date
or has been tampered with.

This is Slackware64-14.2. I've tried several different mirrors. I've tried using an rsync mirror. I've made sure the system time was correct. I've checked a lot of other things some things gpg related things. I don't know what to check now or what the issue could be. I applied all the latest patches manually and made sure the .new configs are installed etc.

UPDATE: I deleted the .gnupg and that lead to things working. Not sure what caused the issue.

Thanks for the post. Little "stories" like this help when we encounter odd error situations.

It works!
 

I would like to add that the solution indeed is to delete the .gnupg folder located in the root folder (home of root user, /root/.gnupg/ )