Building firefox

[Edwin ten Brink]

Paul wrote:
> I've tried to rebuild from the srpm, it built, but then when I try to
> install I get
>
> Error unpacking rpm package firefox-3.5-0.22.beta4.fc12.i586
> error : unpacking of archive failed on
> file /usr/lib/firefox-3.5b4/firefox;4a4615d6 : cpio : Digest mismatch
> firefox-3.5-0.22.beta4.fc12.i586 was supposed to be removed but is not!
>
> I've never come across this before and am wondering if there is some
> sort of magic required to build firefox or if there is something else
> going on.
Your description sounds a lot like bug 437608 [1] to me.
Although that bug is not yet closed, the proposed workarounds might help 
you further.

Regards,

Edwin


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437608