Bad md5sum for linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2 in kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm and 9.0.1.EL

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Friday 05 March 2004 11:13 am, Jacob Rief wrote:
> Hi,
> I am wondering, but checking the subpackages from the src-rpms
> kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.src.rpm and kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm gave me
> the following md5sum for the vanilla kernel:
>
> rpm -qp --dump kernel-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.src.rpm |grep linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2
> linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2 28599610 1063820719
> bc89effc6f0eefa34c140f25e12880e1 0100644 root root 0 0 0 X
>
> and the same for
>
> rpm -qp --dump kernel-2.4.21-4.EL.src.rpm |grep linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2
> linux-2.4.21.tar.bz2 28599610 1063820719
> bc89effc6f0eefa34c140f25e12880e1 0100644 root root 0 0 0 X
>
> but the official kernel-2.4.21 from www.kernel.org has an md5sum of
> f51e12efa18bb828cf57d9d4a81b2fb1
> I also checked the signature there.

Redhat often times patch the kernel themselves, and backported security patch, 
features, etc. Thus the Redhat's (patched) kernel is not necessarily exactly 
the same as the one published by www.kernel.org. 

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
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