[CentOS] Nmap update checksum failures.

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Mon Feb 20 16:36:41 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 00:04 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
> > OK ... I think we may have 2 separate problems here.
> > 
> > One problem is a mirror that shows zero length on a file in dag's repo
> ><snip>

> > BUT there is also a problem specifically with nmap ... it is a broken
> > package checksum in the yum metadata files.  Last time Dag had this
> > problem it was a bug with the way the createrepo -c function worked.
> 
> I am no longer using the createrepo -c functionality after the incident 
> last time.
> 
> However it seems in the case of nmap, the checksum in the metadata is 
> wrong. Not sure where this comes from (or how I can get rid of it) since I 
> have created the repodata many times since this issue was first reported.

Just wanted to check, since it is a security update, is there anything
we (I/you/CentOS...) need to do or is it a wait for the upstream folks
to fix something?

TIA
Bill
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