Hi,
Since we have a month to test this, can you send me the exact rpm version and 
the version of linux that you sign them on.  We'll give it a shot.  We haven't 
tried signing the 1.6 jdk's, and if we can get it setup and tested, that would 
be great.
Thanks
Troy

Faye Gibbins wrote:
> We rsync our updates from SL and then move the java ones into a separate
> repo to avoid recent problems with unsigned packages.
> 
> We then sign them with rpm v3, which with Sun java rpms is often the
> only way.
> 
> Problem solved.
> 
> Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>
>>> P.P.S. I am puzzled why yum does not have the obvious improvement,
>>> where if
>>> you install 100 packages and yum does not like 1 of them, it still
>>> installs
>>> the 99 packages it is happy with.
>> That would be nice, though it isn't trivial to work out which
>> of the 99 will work without the 1. Worst case you could degenerate
>> into an n-squared dependency search.
>>
> 
> 


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