On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, Gianni Pucciani wrote:
> Hello,
> I noticed that the package jdk-1.6.0_16-fcs.x86_64.rpm is not signed
> Do you know why that package is not signed?
We haven't found a way of signing the jdk.x86_64 package that
signature checking tools will accept.
I understand that Sun make the rpms themselves and the licence
does not allow Red Hat or SL to rebuild them.
Unfortunately Sun use version 3 of rpm and the standard tools
do not sign v3 format packages. A work around exists for 32bit
packages, but we don't know an equivalent for x86_64 packages :-(
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