On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tim Mooney <Tim.Mooney@ndsu.edu> wrote:

> If you try sign an RPM built with 3.0.x with a 4.X.Y version of RPM, the
> RPM becomes corrupted.
>
> Would this be something that's easy to fix -- make RPM 5.1.x capable of
> signing both modern and ancient RPMs?  It sure would make a lot of
> sysadmins lives easier, as they wouldn't have to keep an old copy of RPM
> around just to sign packages they get from vendors.

Having asked this question once or twice over the last few years I'll
save Jeff the hassle of telling you that it's an insoluble problem.
So short answer is if it ain't happened by now, it ain't gonna happen.
Jason