[Yum] YUM & md5sums

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 15:43, Erik Williamson wrote:
> Hi All - 
> 
> Today RedHat released updates to the mm and mm-devel packages.  I
> plunked them into my repository, and ran yum-arch.  The packages that I
> fetched from RedHat hav valid checksums, but when I run 'yum update' I
> get the following:
> 
> --snip, snip --
> 
> [erik at trial ~erik]$ /usr/sbin/yum -y update mm
> Gathering package information from servers
> Getting headers from: Redhat Updates
> Getting headers from: Ximian Updates
> Finding updated packages
> Downloading needed headers
> Finding obsoleted packages
> Resolving dependencies
> Dependencies resolved
> I will do the following:
> [update: mm.i386]
> I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the depedencies:
> [deps: mm-devel.i386]
> Error: MD5 Signature check failed for
> /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/mm-devel-1.1.3-8.i386.rpm
> You may want to run yum clean or remove the file:
>  /var/cache/yum/updates/packages/mm-devel-1.1.3-8.i386.rpm
> Exiting.
> 

go into that dir and run rpm -K mm-devel-1.1.3-8.i386.rpm

see what turns up.

> Is there something I'm missing here?  All the other packages work
> perfectly.  Where does yum get/check/keep package md5sums?

the md5sums are IN the packages.

it uses rpm's method for checking md5sums

> 
> Thanks - 
> e.
> 
> Seth - This stuff kicks butt.  Thanks for all your work that you've put
> into this.

glad its working for you. I've been quiet for a while b/c of job-related
things, Hopefully I'll be able to get some things going soon.

-sv