[yum] - strange tarball in yum srpm

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:58 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> The latest yum-3.2.8 source rpm (at least the version for Fedora 7:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/7/SRPMS/yum-3.2.8-2.fc7.src.rpm 
> )
> 
> has a source tarball, which includes yet another source tarball again 
> (recursively-like), i.e. the front yum-3.2.8.tar.gz contains yet another 
> yum-3.2.8.tar.gz in its root dir...
> 
> Is it an upstream bug? Does the tarball of Fedora srpm match the 
> upstream?  8-)
> I hope that it not traces of an external intervention ;)

It was a bug. I had made two of them accidentally. When in doubt about
the provenance of a package just check the gpg signature on the src.rpm

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x69886CC7

it should be from this key.

-sv