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 :-( -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
