On Tuesday 04 May 2004 03:54 pm, Kent Schumacher wrote:
> For completeness, apt was not happy.  Any time I queried the rpm
> db I got a complaint about an invalid signature.  I did a
> rpm --rebuilddb, and rpm dumped the record for ximians openoffice.
>
> The rpm is still installed, it's just not being tracked by rpm.
>
> I guess the next step is to bdiff the original rpm with my
> hacked rpm and hex edit the signature.
>
> This is really dumb - there should be an easy way to edit the
> dependency info of an rpm.
>
> Entertainingly enough, the documents for rpmlib are out of sync
> with the actual library, and the sole rpmlib example doesn't
> compile because the API has changed radically.

I'll give a hint here, but I can't say I recommend it.

You can comment out the gpg signature check in the lua scripts.

I think not checking signatures is a bad idea. :-)

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