Oh, I also meant to add that I tried manually modifying the repomd.xml to
use the right kind of checksums.  That got me past the "Error performing
checksum" that I had without python-hashlib installed, but I still didn't
get anything showing up from the yum-security commands.

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Alex Leonhardt <[email protected]> wrote:

> You need a package on rhel5/cent5 for this .. I think it's "python-hashlib"
>
> Alex
>
>
> On 09/26/2013 08:56 PM, Christina Plummer wrote:
>
>  Hello,
>
> I discovered that my RHEL5 client wasn't able to utilize the "updateinfo"
> metadata on my repo (for commands like "yum list-security"), but otherwise
> the repo seemed to be working OK.  I took a look at the repodata and
> noticed that these data types had <checksum type="sha256">:
> group
> updateinfo
> productid
>
> And these had <checksum type="sha">:
> filelists
> primary
> other
> filelists_db
> primary_db
> other_db
>
> I hadn't specified the checksum-type when I created the repo, so I tried
> forcing it to sha:
>
> pulp-admin rpm repo update --repo-id=rhel-5-x86_64-os --checksum-type=sha
> pulp-admin rpm repo publish run --repo-id=rhel-5-x86_64-os
>
> But that didn't change the repomd.xml contents (other than the revision
> and timestamps).  I also tried --checksum-type=sha1 and
> --checksum-type=sha256, but nothing seemed to have any effect.
>
> This may be related to this open bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953248
>
> Are either of these (RHEL5 clients not understanding updateinfo.xml data,
> and the group/updateinfo/productid always using sha256) expected or known
> issues?
>
> Thanks,
> Christina
>
>
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