Re: [Fwd: Installation Problem]

From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 17:55:44 EST

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    On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 04:48, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
    > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 00:52, Martin Sevior wrote:
    > > I downloaded 1.0.4 on a 100% clean RH 8.0 and had exactly this problem.
    > > Also the abiword-fonts-1.0.4 package is corrupted somehow. It won't
    > > install.
    > > rms can you look at this?
    > > The simple solution for getting around the signature problem is:
    > > rpm -ivh --nosignature abiword-*
    >
    > This should never be an acceptable work around :)
    > If there's a signature problem, then something may be very very wrong.

    Rui is absolutely right. The reason the sig didnt check out in this
    case was because the file was corrupt (duh). It wasn't minor
    corruption, it was a useless, entirely broken file.

    Regards
    -MG



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