CentOS - Nov 2010 - Help with yum and cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

I am trying to install Ruby-1.8.7p302 on a CentOS-5.5 server in
preparation for a Rails-3 application deployment.  I have downloaded
the source from Rubyforge.org, unpacked it, and ran ./config and
make.  Everything built without error. I then ran checkinstall to
create an rpm package. That too completed without error.

However, when I try to install the resulting package using:

yum localinstall /path/to/package --nogpgcheck I get this message:
.  .  .
Running Transaction
  Installing     : ruby-1.8.7                                       
       1/1
Error unpacking rpm package ruby-1.8.7-p302-1.i386
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/make;4cf56119:
cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

Failed:
  ruby-1.8.7.i386 0:p302-1

Does anyone here know how to work around this?

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, James B. Byrne wrote:
> make.  Everything built without error. I then ran 
> checkinstall ...
checkinstall is a third party solution and does not keep up 
too well
> Running Transaction
>  Installing     : ruby-1.8.7
>       1/1
> Error unpacking rpm package ruby-1.8.7-p302-1.i386
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/make;4cf56119:
> cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
try a local install with rpm rather than yum; and add the 
--nomd5 option there.  that said, if it is encountering a 
later compression (think: xz), you'll need to address the 
matter with a 'real' rebuild

-- Russ herrold

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 3:48 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>
wrote:
> I am trying to install Ruby-1.8.7p302 on a CentOS-5.5 server in
> preparation for a Rails-3 application deployment. ?I have downloaded
> the source from Rubyforge.org, unpacked it, and ran ./config and
> make. ?Everything built without error. I then ran checkinstall to
> create an rpm package. That too completed without error.
Your RPM was built on a Fedora, RHEL 6, or other more recent OS with
the updated version of RPM.

I'm afraid you'll have to recompile it to get it to work well: use
'rpm2cpio' to take apart the SRPM and get the files, then deposit them
in a relevant "SOURCES" directory with the .spec file in your relevant
SPECS directory, and try to rebuild RPM's with the .spec file.

I can get into more detail if you need it, but it's how I backported
Torque 2.4.10 to RHEL 5 from the EPEL RHEL 6 repository two weeks ago.