* Leon Freitag schrieb am 23.03.11 um 19:20 Uhr: > > Hm maybe. But I am sorry I cannot check this due to the lack of a > > 11.1 Installation, anyone else? > I just remembered I had the same issue back in the days when every packager > used his own key to manually sign the packages. I had a 4096 bit key, and I > had to generate a new 1024 bit key to work around the problem. But this was > back in 2006, when 10.1 with the buggy package management was out, and the > error was slightly different, too. See here: > > http://lists.links2linux.de/pipermail/packman/2006-April/002406.html > > However the bug might have been unaddressed in rpm until the advent of rpm > 4.7.1; opensuse 11.1 has rpm 4.4.x > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812 > > > Maybe we can offer a backported rpm version from 11.2 for 11.1? > > Hopefully it won't break anything. Additionally, users would have to either > install it off the repository or disable signature checks (since the package > would be signed with a bad key either)
We might offer a single rpm package outside the repository that is signed with a different key. After that everything would work nomal again. > > Maybe signing the 11.1 packages with a separate 1024 bit signing key could be > an alternative, or is it too much of a hassle? Yep, that would be too complicated and IMO will add more confusion than it would solve. -Marc -- 8AAC 5F46 83B4 DB70 8317 3723 296C 6CCA 35A6 4134
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