If was packaged up by a colleague no longer with us. This is what he 
said in his RPM package:

snip---
j2sdk, jre from www.java.com and openoffice.org RPM packages
for example can not be signed with newer version of RPM which
breaks them, so version 3.0 have to be used to do this
snip---

'rpm3 --version' says  'RPM version 3.0'

I've just tested it on jdk-1.5.0_16-fcs.i586.rpm and it seems to do the job.

Faye

Troy Dawson wrote:
> 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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