Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
Phil Schaffner wrote: 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 Which i also wrote on planet.centos.org some weeks ago ;-) -- -- Fabian Arrotin idea=`grep -i clue /dev/brain` test -z $idea echo sorry, init 6 in progress || sh ./answer.sh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
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 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
Midnight Commander also has this functionality too :) On 6/24/09 5:12 PM, Michael A. Peters mpet...@mac.com wrote: Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:52 -0700 Michael A. Peters wrote: 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? What about extracting it manually? The built-in Nautilus doodad can pull files out of rpms. Thank you! That seems to work, though I have to manually put the files in my rpm build tree. Better than nothing I suppose :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
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@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Ah - https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flattopic_id=70857forum=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? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:52 -0700 Michael A. Peters wrote: 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? What about extracting it manually? The built-in Nautilus doodad can pull files out of rpms. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:52 -0700 Michael A. Peters wrote: 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? What about extracting it manually? The built-in Nautilus doodad can pull files out of rpms. Thank you! That seems to work, though I have to manually put the files in my rpm build tree. Better than nothing I suppose :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
On 06/24/2009 05:12 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote: That seems to work, though I have to manually put the files in my rpm build tree. Better than nothing I suppose :) You could always get familiar with Fedora's CVS server: cvs -d :pserver:anonym...@cvs.fedoraproject.org:/cvs/pkgs co pkg/F-11 cd pkg/F-11 make srpm ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?
Michael A. Peters wrote: 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? Using rpm itself doesn't seem to work (bad checksum), but the rpm2cpio utility seems to work OK: To extract file listing: rpm2cpio somerpmfile.rpm | cpio -itv To extract RPM contents to current directory: rpm2cpio somerpmfile.rpm | cpio -idmv etc. -Greg ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
