[syslinux] installing latest rpm on RHEL

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Danny Zeng wrote:

> Just tried to install RPMs to a RHEL 5.5 64-bit machine, failed too.
>
> #rpm -ihv --nodeps http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/RPMS/x86_64/syslinux-tftpboot-3.86-1.x86_64.rpm
> error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad Magic
>
> #rpm -ihv --nodeps http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/RPMS/x86_64/syslinux-tftpboot-3.84-1.x86_64.rpm
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /tftpboot/chain.c32;4bbc5813: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
>
> #rpm -ihv --nodeps http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/RPMS/x86_64/syslinux-tftpboot-3.83-1.x86_64.rpm
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /tftpboot/chain.c32;4bbc58d3: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
>
> Downloading RPMs from RedHat does work.
>
> Can someone help check the rpms?

Is it possible these RPMs have been created with the newer rpm-build 
(since Fedora 12) and therefor are not installable by anything that 
predates Fedora 12 ?

This is a very annoying problem with a change in the RPM format (without 
providing any backported support in newer RHEL releases or compatibility).

Not good for something that is apart of the LSB standard :-/
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