Fedora 11 / EPEL 5 MD5 Issue

[Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.]

Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 07/16/2009 10:32 AM, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote:
>> I've built the following package on Fedora 10 and 11 in mock without any
>> problems.
>>      http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/libMini-9.0.3-2.fc11.src.rpm
>>
>> However, when I try and build for EPEL 5 using mock on a F11 machine I
>> get
>> the following in root.log:
>>
>> DEBUG util.py:256:  error: unpacking of archive failed on file
>> /builddir/build/SOURCES/MINI-9.0.3.zip;4a5f3532: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
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> To extract sources from an SRPM:
> rpm2cpio <src.rpm> | cpio --extract
> (Do this in its own directory)
>
> To enable the old checksum (for building RHEL packages):
> rpmbuild -bs --define _source_filedigest_algorithm=1 <spec>
>
> This will recreate the SRPM using an MD5 sum instead of a SHA1 sum.
>
> You can then use that in mock.
>

Excellent. Thanks.