[Spacewalk-list] CENTOS packages being linked to RHEL channels

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta)
<josh.mullis at cox.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello all...
>
>
> I am having an issue where it seems packages from centos and rhel are
> getting intermingled.
>
> Packages from centos are being linked to rhel channels if they have the same
> name/version.
> The only difference is the checksum, which is how I thought it determined
> the difference between the packages.
>
> For example:
> CENTOS:  openssh-clients-4.3p2-36.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm   (MD5:
> 323bcbc172aaa184be6a09b74fbbf2f8)
> RHEL:   openssh-clients-4.3p2-36.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm    (MD5:
> 700204790cd941717e071ac5471a5fd2)
>

I think this is a known problem from a while ago.. not sure what the
status of getting a fix is. The packages are chosen by
name-epoch-version-release versus md5sum or gpg signature.





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