After using --repackage, I get DSA signature: BAD

Kai Lanz lanz at stanford.edu
Wed Aug 20 21:07:00 UTC 2014


I used --repackage to rebuild an  rpm; this worked fine:

# rpm -ev --repackage kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL
Wrote: /var/spool/repackage/kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL.x86_64.rpm

Unfortunately, the resulting rpm can't be used. If I copy it to another
machine and try to install it, I get:

# rpm -ivh kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL.x86_64.rpm
error: kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID db42a60e

On the machine where I created the rpm, I see:

$ rpm --checksig kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL.x86_64.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 MD5 GPG NOT OK

and

$ rpm -qip kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL.x86_64.rpm
error: kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.EL.x86_64.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID db42a60e

How do I fix this? Will signing the rpm do the trick? (Creating a GPG key
and then resigning the rpm...)

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Kai Lanz             Stanford University                  lanz at stanford.edu


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