Re: [Security-Discuss] Updated Xfree86/Xorg packages

Vincent Danen <vdanen-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7-May-05, at 9:11 AM, Chris wrote:

>>> Should I assume its safe anyway to run the update and that  
>>> somehow the
>>> signatures got left out?
>>>
>>
>> No, I wouldn't assume that at all.  I'd suspect that the files are
>> incomplete or damaged.  Clean out /var/cache/urpmi/rpms and try it
>> again.  I know they are properly signed:
>>
>> You can also check the sizes of the files as well; it sounds to me
>> like the files couldn't be opened because they're not all there:
>>
>>
> Thanks Vincent, that did the trick. I'll remember that in the  
> future now.

No worries.  If you get something like that and don't clean out the  
cache, you're not going to see any noticeable improvements the next  
time you run urpmi... =)

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