Custom RPMs - Part of Installation (not post)

[Phillip T. George]

On 04/07/2011 01:22 PM, Hugh Brown wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 12:32 PM, Phillip T. George wrote:
>> On 04/07/2011 12:12 PM, Jos Vos wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:42:42AM -0500, Phillip T. George wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking to install Fedora with updates and custom RPMs/repo included
>>>> as part of the kickstart. The portion of including the updates is
>>>> fairly easy. However, the custom RPMs (via a custom repo) does not seem
>>>> to be as easy as it should be. I'm needing to disable the gpgcheck or
>>>> add a key. But, the issue is, I do not see go to disable the gpgcheck
>>>> or add the gpg key. Am I missing some piece of vital documentation?
>>> I didn't check F14 for this, but up to F13 the install does not seem to
>>> do signature checks: I'm including a custom repo with non-signed RPMs
>>> in my kickstart file and those RPMs are installed without any problems.
>>>
>> Hmm...interesting. Well I'm getting an error about downloading corrupt
>> RPMs ... I assume it was because the signature could not be verified, as
>> it had connectivity to download the repo info. I'll do some more digging
>> and see if maybe there's something else going on.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Phillip
>>
> If the rpm has been updated but createrepo hasn't been re-run, you could
> get that.
>
> Hugh
>
>

Thank you Hugh and also Jos (who also replied).  My brain got stuck on 
the idea that this had to do with gpg checks/keys, and you have helped 
me to realize this is not the case.  It appears to be an interaction 
between the RPM downloading mechanism (pyCurl possibly) and the FTP 
server.  As a temporary workaround I can download the small repository 
locally via a pre script and reference the repo.  I seem to be 
experiencing the same error/issue in 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624431 though I cannot 
recreate via any CLI combination that is mentioned.  Very odd.

Thanks again!
Phillip