RE : [SSI-users] bad srpms?

[John H. <john@Calva.COM>]

John Byrne <joh...@hp...> replies:

> John Hughes wrote:

(installing from source)

>> But I get stuck at the "install the base srpms" step:
>> 
>> # rpm -ihv srpms/*.rpm
>> warning: srpms/chkconfig-1.3.8-1.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY,
key 
>> ID db42a60e

> Well, for the NOKEY problem you just need to do an "rpm --import
> RPM-GPG-KEY". A file that is found on your rh9 install media/server.

Yup, I "accidentaly" fixed the problem by doing "up2date", which
required
that I do the import.

>> error: srpms/kernel-2.4.20-20.9.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key
ID 
>> db42a60e
>> error: srpms/kernel-2.4.20-20.9.src.rpm cannot be installed
>> 
>> # ls -l srpms/kernel-2.4.20-20.9.src.rpm 
>> -rw-rw-r--    1 john     john      6570465 Oct 28 11:38
>> srpms/kernel-2.4.20-20.9.src.rpm

> The file is far too short. (28 MB or so too short.) Why, I don't know.

> Unfortunately, the only way I know to get CVS to do update it properly

> is to delete the file and do a cvs update in that directory. (I don't 
> think it is clever enough to continue downloading the file; it will
just 
> think you modified it.)

I tried that, but I got a short file again.

In the end I just downloaded the kernel-2.4.20-20.9.src.rpm from
RedHat.