Thanks all. Your advise solved that problem. 
Owen

Tom wrote:
Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:09 -0700, Owen wrote:

After installing either LE 2005 or 10.2  I run into this problem when I try to update the system.
My computer does not have any other software or operating system installed.;
Below is an example of what happens.
"Rpmdrake;
The following packages have bad signatures:
kbebase-common-3.2.3-1.34.8.101mdki586rpm: Missing signature(unable to read rpmfile)/
Do you want to continue installation?"
  Am I wrong in assuming that a signature is a check on a file similar to a CRC check in DOS?
How does a file end up with a "bad signature"?
Was there a error in downloading or was it a bad file to start with?
What do I do about it?  Should I try to re-download the file?
Owen


What I have done when this happened was download the file anyways,
remove and reconfigure all my software sources
(http://urpmi-addmedia.org), and then run an update - everything turned
out being fine and dandy after that. Worth a shot.

   They are not a CRC check. Bad signatures are the packagers fault, usually on contrib rpms. Either the rpm was improperly signed, or not signed at all.  This will never be fixed unless the packager does it, as Mandriva does not support contrib packages.  On 'regular' supported Mandriva packages (main) it can also be safely ignored, as it probly won't be fixed either.

    So either ignore the warning and continue, or avoid it by putting  {brackets included}

{
    verify-rpm: 0
}

.... at the beginning of   /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg     'verify' in this case is only the packager's signature.

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