[syslinux] installing latest rpm on RHEL

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Dag Wieers wrote:

> 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 :-/

As a solution to installing syslinux on RHEL5, you might want to use the 
packages from:

 	http://packages.sw.be/syslinux/

That is, if you trust me ;-)

Otherwise use the SPEC file from the SRPM, download the tarball yourself 
and build on a system you trust. (You can do the same with Peter's SRPM 
package in fact)

Kind regards,
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