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Werk #8278: RPM packages created on SLES11SP3 should now work on CentOS 6

Component Agent bakery
Title RPM packages created on SLES11SP3 should now work on CentOS 6
Date Jun 24, 2015
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.7i2 Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

When you create RPM packages with the agent bakery on a more modern RPM based system for an older RPM based system then the compression algorithm in the created RPMs would not always by compatible with older RPM versions. This has been fixed by forcing the compression to be Gzip.

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