[syslinux] installing latest rpm on RHEL

[Richard Doogan]

Yes, it was packaged using a newer release. I had to do a quick install 
of a Fedora system to unpack the RPM, and then I just dumped the files 
onto my EL5 system.


On 07/04/2010 13:10, 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 :-/

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