[CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails
Mike McCarty
Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 21 20:59:44 UTC 2011
Jay Leafey wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812
>>
>> Mike
>
> As I understand it, there have been some changes in the checksum methods
> in the newer versions of RPM. If you want to install package built with
> the newer versions, you need to add the --nomd5 option to the rpm
> command to avoid the signature errors:
That was my (provisional) conclusion, and that's what I did.
Version 5.40 is now happily running on my system. Hadda update
the smartd.conf file, of course, for my needs.
>
> rpm -ivh --nomd5 smartmontools-5.39-1.2.el6.src.rpm
>
> Of course, once that's done the fun is just starting. Since the
> original was built for RHEL6, it may have dependencies on newer versions
> of other packages.
I had no other problems. I probably need to get a later version
of RPM source and install. I had already done a straight tarball
build and install into /usr/local for some testing, but wanted
RPM to do it "right", so I needed a SPEC file, mostly.
>
> Your mileage may vary.
>
Thanks!
Mike
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