rpm 5.4.15 creates invalid rpms

[Jeffrey Johnson]

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> On Nov 3, 2014, at 5:12 PM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at delfi.ee> wrote:
> 
>> On 03.11.2014 22:59, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>>> On Nov 3, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
>>> 
>>> seems rpm 4.5.15 creates rpms that rpm 4.5 is unable to install.
>> Why are you still using rpm-4.5? Presumably yopu mean 5.4.15.
> no. i mean 4.5
> 
> there are several reasons:
> 
> i use 4.5 because in 5.4 this does not work:
> 
> $ rpm -q $JOB_NAME-*-*.build$BUILD_NUMBER
> i.e:
> $ rpm -q ftask-*-*.build36
> ftask-1.0-4.0.svn56721.build36.noarch
> 

Sure it works. Rewrite as a *RE not a glob and prefix with ^ to trigger a pattern lookup (from memory on iPhone, will send worked example if you can't figure out from GOOG)

10x faster (at least) as well.

> and i need it for automatics.
> 
> secondly, /var/lib/rpm size is ENOURMOUS comparing to what rpm 4.5 had:
> 
> 4.5:
> # du -s /var/lib/rpm
> 33M     /var/lib/rpm
> 
> 5.4.x:
> # du -s /var/lib/rpm
> 347M    /var/lib/rpm
> 

You need to be more specific.

Yes rpm-5.4.15 is transactionally
protected and largely eliminatesautomates the need to do
rpm --rebuilddb

> (not same packages installed, but you'll get the idea)

Whatever: there just haven't been serious changes to an rpmdb schematic all century

>>> this sounds soo familiar already. something like payload not padded, containing random memory etc...
>>> 
>>> Executing rpm --upgrade -vh --root / --define _check_dirname_deps 1...
>>> error: jenkins-1.580.1-1.noarch.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 signature: BAD, key ID 403fdcd0
>>> error: jenkins-1.580.1-1.noarch.rpm cannot be installed
>>> error: jenkins-plugin-maven-1.580.1-1.noarch.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 signature: BAD, key ID 403fdcd0
>>> error: jenkins-plugin-maven-1.580.1-1.noarch.rpm cannot be installed
>>> 
>>> those rpms ARE NOT signed. raw what rpmbuild wrote.
>>> 
>>> rpm used in build machine:
>>> $ rpmbuild --version
>>> rpmbuild (RPM) 5.4.15
>>> 
>>> $ rpm -q rpm-build
>>> rpm-build-5.4.15-1.i686
>>> 
>>> 
>>> rpm used in target machine:
>>> # rpm --version
>>> RPM version 4.5
>>> 
>>> # rpm -q rpm
>>> rpm-4.5-70.i686
>>> 
>>> i've placed the offending rpm's here:
>>> http://carme.pld-linux.org/~glen/rpm5/
>>> (filenames you already know in case mod_dirlisting is not working)
>> The RSA v4 keyid is not correctly implementedin rpm-4.5. Use DSA or go fix rpm-4.5.
> baggins: we probably should revert it then.
> 
> 
>> All packages produced by rpmbuild-5.4.15 are signed automatically. Been that way
>> for several years.
> yep. that's what i recalled problem being familiar.
>> 73 de Jeff
> 
> 
> -- 
> glen
> 
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