Re: New apt-repomd snapshot + other apt-rpm news

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 06:15 -0800, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Ville Skytt=C3=A4 wrote:
> >
> > Builds nicely on pre-FC5 x86_64 (gcc 4.1), but reports a MD5Sum misma=
tch
> > with Skype's repository [1] with which Smart, yum and the 01032006
> > snapshot are happy with.
> >
> > [1] repomd http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/ fedora/3/updates/i5=
86/
>=20
> Looks to me as if smart and yum are actually in error here:
[...]
> Those don't look anything like the checksum and open-checksum (for the=20
> gunzipped case) in repomd.xml, so apt is right to complain about it. An=
d=20
> actually yum doesn't like it either:

Hm, right, I must have had an old cached copy around or something.  A
brief look at smart tells me that it probably won't bother verifying the
uncompressed checksum but does only the compressed one which would
explain its happiness with the above.