Re: RedHat's incompetence (corrupted RPMs)

[Bill Nottingham <notting arl wustl edu>]

Daniel Prantl (dprantl black clarku edu) said: 
> I found out on the USENET that lots of the
> packages are CORRUPTED (about 58 I think).  I had no way of finding out
> which ones though, because I don't have Linux installed, so I can't run
> rpmtool on them.  So, I am now downloading the whole thing again from a
> site that I know does not have corrupted RPMs (ftp.engr.uark.edu).

Of course! All that *corruption* in the RPMS was magically fixed
when the mirror sites downloaded them from the same ftp.redhat.com
files you did! It's so obvious! Must be those new "active networks"...

Seriously, the problem in the scanning packages is a lot more likely
to have something to do with differences in versions of RPM &
corrupted databases (as has happened in a couple of cases.)

Bill