Mandrake 9.1 kernel update problems

[Fraser Campbell]

On January 11, 2004 02:13 pm, Austin Acton wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:07, Clive DaSilva wrote:
> > Since then I have tried to upgrade my kernel twice since then,
> > first to 2.4.21.0.27 mdk and also to 2.6.0.1mdk. In both cases, the
> > urpmi tool as well as "rpm --checksig kernelwhatever.rpm" reported a
> > "bad signature" and borked the installation.
>
> Don't confuse "bad signature" with "bad checksum".
> The latter means the rpm is broken, but the former just means that you
> don't have the Mandrake 9.1 pgp key in your rpm database.

It could also mean that the ftp site has been hacked and that someone has 
replaced the kernel rpm with one that has some nice added features.  Is it 
common for Mandrake rpms to have bad signatures?

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