> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 23:45:40 +0200
> From: mschwe...@gmail.com
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: Yum fails to install kernel-devel
>
> On Fri, 2 May 2014 10:52:56 -0700, Luke Nath wrote:
>
> >
> > yum -y update updated more than 11500 packages, because I had not
> > run updates for quite a while.
>
> A direct upgrade from F18 to F20?
some time ago, I ran fedup to fc20 and it worked perfectly. I booted into
fc20 and I had no serious problems.
I have been without internet for many weeks. I used a hotspot to finally
run yum update, and it worked fine, ecept for the glitch of installing
kernel-devel
>
> > Marking kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm as an update to
> > kernel-devel-3.11.10-100.fc18.x86_64
> > Marking kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm as an update to
> > kernel-devel-3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64
>
> > Error unpacking rpm package kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64
> > error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: mkdir
> > Verifying : kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64
>
> Since you're looking for a work-around, have you tried removing the
> installed kernel-devel package and installing the new one afterwards?
> It could be that you don't even need the files within it. In case there
> are dependencies, plain old "rpm" knows how to deal with such a case.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will indeed try it.
I have been under the impression that the package may be corrupted.
>
> > Here are the sums of the file:
> >
> > # md5sum kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> > 0d6418857d2c6ba112077a102d41d89e kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> > # sha512sum kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> > 39ccd42b2ff94e941dd75071004dc73011e98c8b092290f84d5c861c6b1614c1ca7c4d0fea3e13fd155f91bb2d6f2b47bc53c5c909f27aff607f54746acd
> > 77be kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm
>
> If you want to verify packages, run "rpm -Kv …" on the file.
Thanx again for the tips.
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