Re: RPM 4 "cpio: read" error

[Alastair Gregory <agregory infoplanning com>]

Hi Dima,
I've been lurking on the RPM list for a while, and noticed your message
indicating that you have upgraded from RPM 3 to RPM 4.  I am trying to do the
same on a Mandrake 7.1 Linux system but am blocked by the message

"Only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM"

when I try to install the RPM 4.0.x  .rpm file.  This (catch-22) is the exact
reason why I want to upgrade to RPM 4 - I get this on other .rpms that I am
trying to install.

Can you advise me, or direct me to a source of info on upgrading RPM from 3 to
4, preferably using .rpms (vs. building from source code)?

Thanks,
Alastair Gregory

Dima Nemchenko wrote:

> Dima Nemchenko wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've successfully upgraded my RH5.2-based system first to RPM3 and now
> > to RPM4 (rpm-4.0.2-5x from ftp.rpm.org).
> >
> > Managing packages works fine, and (after I figured out that I need
> > rpm-build now!) building packages _appears_ to work ok.
> >
> > However, the newly built packages are about half the size of ones built
> > with RPM2 and RPM3, and installing them causes RPM to cough with "cpio:
> > read error" or "cpio: MD5 sum mismatch".
> >
> > This hasn't got anything to do with RPM4 using bzip2, does it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for everyone's help,
> > --
> > Dima Nemchenko
>
> Anybody?
> --
>
>:D_ima
> Dima Nemchenko <Dima.Nemchenko@lunarlollipop.co.uk>
>
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