up2date generating an error when trying to install lynx

[Tyler larson]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 11:27, Adrian Likins wrote:

> 	Well, thats a new one. Havent seen it before but
> it definately looks like you got a corrupted header downloaded
> and it blew up in gzip. 
> 
> 	Yay, more exceptions to catch! ;->
> 

While I'm all for catching exceptions and handling them without
crashing, I think that this is yet another manifestation of a deeper
problem that (a) absolutely has to be addressed, and (b) will
effectively solve the up2date problems most people have been having.

That is, up2date doesn't verify that an RPM has been downloaded
correctly. It just blindly attempts to install whatever it gets. It's
particularly common for people who download from the default (redhat)
repository to get corrupted/incomplete RPMs, so errors are showing up
everywhere during the install process.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108652

That's not to say that we shouldn't fix the the problems as they
show up that are making up2date crash. But we can't just ignore the
underlying fault, either.