Signing packages on RH73 and RH9 results in other output

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

Hi,

I guess this is yet another issue that nobody really cares about, but what 
the heck, just for the record.

If you sign a set of packages (RH62, RH73, RH80 and RH9) on a RH73 and you 
do the same on a identical copy on RH9 (of course with the same key). Your 
packages will not be the same anymore.

They still seem to work though (at least the RH73 signed ones work on RH9) 
but there's no way that you can do this and hope that you can just rsync 
without it redoing all the files.

If you then think to be clever (ha!) to build a rpm-4.2-1 for RH73 and 
--resign them, don't bother as there is no way you can (re)sign them with 
the same key, let alone remove an existing signature.

This also bit me tonight and well, caused me a lot of grief. It's not been 
my lucky RPM week, that's for sure.


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