kernel source code

psmith johnsmithdoe14 at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 26 15:02:04 UTC 2009


David wrote:
> On 3/26/2009 12:47 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>   
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>     
>>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>>>           
>
>   
>>>>>> And as a side note, I just pulled a source rpm off rawhide, for kernel
>>>>>> 2.6.29-rc8-git and it would unpack due to "MD5 errors" in the install.
>>>>>> Don't know what that's all about, 
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Rawhide has switched to using SHA256 instead of MD5 everywhere
>>>>> including
>>>>> RPM. Details in the stronger hashes feature at
>>>>>           
>
>   
>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/FeatureList
>>>>>           
>
>   
>>>> Actually it seems to be signed with a key I don't see, the message is:
>>>>   kernel-2.6.29-0.258.rc8.git2.fc11.src.rpm: RSA sha1 (MD5) (PGP) md5
>>>> NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: PGP#d22e77f2)
>>>>         
>
>   
>>>> I assume it's a key only in the FC11 release, which isn't in older
>>>> systems. A problem for another day, I'm content now that I understand
>>>> why it fails.
>>>>         
>
>   
>>> Yes. Every release has a different key.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Interesting, though, I got that key off the web site for the alpha, and
>> it's in my personal keyring, some time when I want to spend a lot of
>> time on something I probably won't use I'll figure out where that key
>> needs to be, since I don't have a usable FC11 machine (both installed
>> the alpha but when I do the upgrade they hang solid).
>>     
>
>   
>> Not critical, the newer kernel seems to use my display no better than
>> the old.
>>     
>
>
> The key does not go in your personal keyring. It goes in rpm's keyring.
>
> rpm --import </path_of/name_of_key>
>
>   
why not just download 2.26.29-3.fc10 from koji? i'm pretty sure it has 
the latest modesetting stuff enabled





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