Re: kernel-source

[Jean-Francois Blavier <blavier mark4sun jpl nasa gov>]

Pierre,

> I downloaded kernel-source 2.4.3-12 from both redhat
> and rpmfind both fail during installtion with a MD5
> error. Is there problem with the package????

That is certainly possible.  The other case where I have seen this
kind of problems is when RPM runs out of disk space.  For example:

$ grep " 6.2/en/os/i386/kernel-source" RHBA-2001-081.txt
f865337a4565d4b625290c572c4ddf00 6.2/en/os/i386/kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386

$ md5sum kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm 
f865337a4565d4b625290c572c4ddf00  kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm

$ rpm -K --nogpg kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm 
kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm: MD5 NOT OK

$ du -b kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm             
18039892        kernel-source-2.2.19-6.2.7.i386.rpm

$ df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda2              62211   47361    11637     80%   /
[....]

You can see that the md5sum of the kernel package matches the one
given in the errata, yet RPM complains about it.  This only happens
when the package size exceeds the room available in my "/" (I guess
RPM creates a temporary file as it runs).

Note that the above commands were executed on a 5.2 system checking
a 6.2 kernel update...  My 7.1 system is back home :-)

Jean-Francois