We found that if you sign them with rpm 3.0 rather than rpm 4 they work 
fine.

We rpm'd rpm 3.0 into a package called rpm3 which we use on our box with 
the yum cache (currently RHEL AS 4). It works a treat with the Sun rpms.

Yours
Faye


Troy Dawson wrote:
> Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> There is another security update for java, and I think we really need 
>>> to get
>>> this one out.  I would like to test the update first though incase it 
>>> causes
>>> anyone problems, so I have put the updates into the testing areas so 
>>> they can
>>> be tested.
>>
>> Can the jdk rpms be signed ?
>> I'd be happy with a separate key from Sun if that is required.
>>
> 
> No
> I'm sorry, but that's the way they come from sun.  They build them 
> really weird, and if we sign them, they break and don't install.
> 
> Troy


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