Bug 118385

Summary:	rpm -e --repackage creates rpm with bad md5sum
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robin Green <greenrd>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Robin Green 2004-03-16 07:45:46 UTC

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Description of problem:
Install an rpm and then uninstall it with

rpm -e --repackage foo

The /var/spool/repackage/foo.rpm will have a bad internal md5 sum.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.3-0.9.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -ivh foo-1.2-3.rpm
2. rpm -e --repackage foo
3. rpm -ivh /var/spool/repackage/foo-1.2-3.rpm


Actual Results: 
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/file_contexts: No such
file or directory
error: /root/jaf-1.0.2-3jpp.noarch.rpm: MD5 digest: BAD
Expected(5ca691b5226c05c1db9dc9993fbcbbd4) !=
(044928a134aeef433d7017af9645c414)
error: /root/jaf-1.0.2-3jpp.noarch.rpm cannot be installed


Expected Results:  Preparing...               
########################################### [100%]
   1:jaf                   
########################################### [100%]


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2004-03-16 13:15:24 UTC

Yup.

In fact a tag is added to the header deliberately to poison
the MD5 sum, so that repackaged packages are not packages.