Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-26 Thread Fabian Arrotin
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

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-25 Thread Gary Greene
Midnight Commander also has this functionality too :) On 6/24/09 5:12 PM, "Michael A. Peters" 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

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
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 ma

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Greg Bailey
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

[CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread R P Herrold
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 bl

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
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 /F-11 cd /F-

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
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

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Frank Cox
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 f

Re: [CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
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://

[CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

2009-06-24 Thread Michael A. Peters
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/cento