In regard to: Re: rpm3 package still exist, Jason Corley said (at 12:35pm...:

> 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

Thanks Jason.  I pretty much figured that was the case, but hope springs
eternal, as they say.  ;-)

Tim
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