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List:       taroon-list
Subject:    Re: rhel AS bad sendmail package?
From:       Stephen Gardner <stephen-rhel () uk ! org>
Date:       2005-03-29 19:13:15
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.62.0503291959390.15704 () sg-linux ! uk ! org
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On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 dave@umiacs.umd.edu wrote:

> Anyone download and install the latest sendmail for rhel AS 3?
> Perhaps they put it out before the signed key was ready?
>
> % tar xvf rhn-packages.tar x rhn-packages/sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm, 585357 
> bytes, 1144 tape blocks
> tar: directory checksum error
>
> and
>
> rpm -i sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm 
> error:  sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID db42a60e
> error:  sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> Interestingly, the other sendmail rpm's are fine ie
> sendmail-devel-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm
> sendmail-cf-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm sendmail-doc-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm

Firstly just so others don't panic sendmail-8.13.1-2 is a RHEL4 not 
RHEL3 package. Secondly, having just grabbed the file from RHN

[root@server1 tmp]# rpm --checksig sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm
sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 md5 gpg OK

The output from tar suggests an error originating there rather than the 
rpm itself although the size appears to be right. The most common reports 
of this error I've seen are to do with mismatched tar versions  eg. tar 
created on Solaris (with Sun's tar) and extracted on a RHEL system with 
GNU tar.

Perhaps an  sha1sum -b sendmail-8.13.1-2.i386.rpm  on the source system 
where the rpms were tar'd up and another one on the destination 
system. Come to think of it an sha1sum -b rhn-packages.tar   on both 
systems to ensure it's been transferred correctly will narrow this down.

Regards,
      Stephen

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