Devel buildsys broken?

[Julian Sikorski]

Kevin Kofler pisze:
> Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
>> rhel 5.3, IIRC which doesn't have the matching equivalent in centos yet.
>> Isn't it ?
> 
> RHEL 5.3 only provides the latest yum which is needed to process the SHA256
> metadata. That one is also in centos-testing for CentOS 5.2. That plus
> python-hashlib which Seth Vidal built:
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/hashlib/ is needed for the metadata, it
> doesn't help with the RPM packages themselves using SHA256 checksums
> though. You need RPM 4.6 for that:
> http://people.redhat.com/mitr/sha256-rpm/
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 
> 
I asked in #fedora-admin and they said that
http://people.redhat.com/mitr/sha256-rpm/rpm-4.6.0-4.0.mitr.1.el5.src.rpm
was used, and that python-hashlib from epel-testing is needed as well. I
was also told that the above rpm replaces the host's rpm, and that there
is no downgrade possible.

Julian