rpm compression (was Re: Ubuntu v. Fedora (overall))

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:20:03PM -0700, Richard Fifarek wrote:
> 	On a somewhat related note, can someone else confirm the following for
> me before I submit a bugzilla ticket:
[...]
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/libpcap-0.8.3-ppp.patch;4b86f2f9: cpio: MD5 sum
> mismatch

The Fedora 12 version of rpm (which is also in F10 & F11 updates)
supports LZMA compression in addition to gzip & bzip2.  All of the
packages in F12 are LZMA-compressed.  For some reason, the older version
of rpm isn't realizing that and failing in a sensible way.

You can use mock on Fedora 12 to rebuild for RHEL/CentOS, or you can at
least use Fedora 12's rpm2cpio to unpack the source rpm, then rebuild
with "rpm -ba" on RHEL/CentOS.

Steve
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