Weird RPM/YUM problem.

Gilboa Davara gilboada at netvision.net.il
Wed Oct 19 16:37:56 UTC 2005


Hell all,

I'm trying upgrade my machine FC3 to kde-redhat's KDE 3.4.3 using yum.
Once yum finishes download the files, I get BAD GPG signature error in
one of the file.

So far, so good. I asked Rex (kde-redhat's maintainer) to check the
files, and the files seem to be just fine.
I cleared the yum cache and redownloaded the files. Same error (on
different files, though.)
I decided to check each and every file and did the following:

[root at gilboa-work-dev packages]# rpm -K *.rpm > check.1
[root at gilboa-work-dev packages]# rpm -K *.rpm > check.2
[root at gilboa-work-dev packages]# rpm -K *.rpm > check.3
[root at gilboa-work-dev packages]# diff3 check.1 check.2 check.3 
====1
1:11c
  kdebase-3.4.3-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 GPG NOT OK
2:11c
3:11c
  kdebase-3.4.3-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK
====1
1:18c
  kdelibs-3.4.3-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 GPG NOT OK
2:18c
3:18c
  kdelibs-3.4.3-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK
====
1:30,31c
  kdevelop-3.2.3-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 GPG NOT OK
  openoffice.org-1.1.5-0.1.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 GPG NOT
OK
2:30,31c
  kdevelop-3.2.3-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK
  openoffice.org-1.1.5-0.1.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 GPG NOT
OK
3:30,31c
  kdevelop-3.2.3-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 GPG NOT OK
  openoffice.org-1.1.5-0.1.fc3.kde.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK

As you see, each time I run rpm -K (AKA --checksig) I get a different
result.
This leads me to believe that the machine is flaking on me.
However, beside this weird yum problem, the machine is perfectly
stable. 

Any ideas?
Gilboa




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