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Following up the previous post on this topic, the issue with missing pubkey files leading to NOKEY errors is now resolved on the majority of mirror servers. The following servers from the list used by the Mandriva tools have been tested and found to be GOOD:
ftp://ftp.mandrake.ikoula.com/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.com/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrake/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/official/2008.0
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/2008.0
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrivalinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
http://mandriva.dcc.fc.up.pt/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/official/2008.0
ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/2008.0
The following servers have been tested and found to be [...]

This is for anyone getting NOKEY errors trying to install packages from the online repositories for Mandriva Linux 2008.
The problem was that the pubkey files, which contain the keys used to sign packages in each repository, were missing from the media_info directories in the 2008 tree, so when it was adding the repositories, Mandriva could [...]