F19: thunderbird-24.5.0-1.fc19.i686.rpm package issue

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Tue May 6 22:08:33 UTC 2014


On 05/06/2014 03:00 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 06/05/14 05:40 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> On 06/05/14 04:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2014 12:49 PM, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>>>> Shouldn't yum/rpm refuse to install if the MD5 checksum is wrong ?
>>>
>>> Yes, I'd think that it should.  Open a Bugzilla.
>>
>> One has been opened already.
>>
>>
>
> Just in case you want to see it.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5898
>
>

That's good, as far as it goes, but it doesn't address the underlying 
problem that yum should refuse to install a package with a bad checksum. 
  What's needed is a Bugzilla against yum for trying to install the 
package under these circumstances.


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