Heads up for rawhide users: if you missed an update, you're stuck

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Thu Feb 26 21:51:58 UTC 2009


On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>> Just a note to rawhide users who don't update every day: if you missed
>>> the upgrade to rpm-4.6.0-8.fc11, you now cannot read many (and soon
>>> all) packages in rawhide, including the current version of the rpm
>>> package.  I believe there was a two day window to do this, so if you
>>> haven't updated since Tuesday you might be stuck.
>>>
>>> To get going again, visit koji and manually download the -8 packages
>>> for your arch, update them manually, and then let yum update you the
>>> rest of the way.
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=83804
>>>
>>> Perhaps some enterprising person will drop these in a repo for easy
>>> access before koji garbage collects them.
>>>
>>>  - J<
>>
>> I don't use rawhide. But does this affect my local rawhide mock cache?
>>
>> Orcan
>>
>
> Actually, I should have been more verbose. When I try to use mock on
> rawhide now, I get these type of errors:
>
> DEBUG: Error unpacking rpm package
> kernel-headers-2.6.29-0.157.rc6.git2.fc11.x86_64
> DEBUG: error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /usr/include/asm-generic/errno-base.h;49a707e9: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
> DEBUG: Error unpacking rpm package bash-4.0-2.fc11.x86_64
> DEBUG: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /bin/bash;49a707e9:
> cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
> DEBUG: warning: %post(info-4.13a-1.fc11.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit
> status 255
> DEBUG: warning: %post(libsepol-2.0.35-1.fc11.x86_64) scriptlet failed,
> exit status 255
> DEBUG: warning: %post(libselinux-2.0.77-5.fc11.x86_64) scriptlet
> failed, exit status 25
>
> I removed all my cache, but this still happens (rpm*-4.6.0-9.fc11 is
> being downloaded by mock). I'm not sure how this is related to what is
> being discussed though.

Mock uses the hosts rpm & yum to do things. Update to rpm-4.6.0-1.fc10 (in 
updates now) to fix it.

 	- Panu -




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