Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting repeated bad downloads?
Michael A. Peters wrote:> Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors > when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting > repeated bad downloads? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosAh - https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=70857&forum=11 Seems like rpm in Fedora 11 does some stuff that breaks backwards compatibility. Are they any utilities, other than installing Fedora 11 and setting the macros described in that thread and rebuilding the src.rpm, to resolve the issue?
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote:> Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors > when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting > repeated bad downloads?the former. I covered the matter and a workaround within RPM in a series of blog posts called: Oh .. My ... Goodness available through: http://planet.centos.org/ a couple of months ago. -- Russ herrold
Michael A. Peters wrote:> Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors > when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting > repeated bad downloads?rpm -ivh --nomd5 packagename.src.rpm Phil