[CentOS] [offtopic] Fedora 11 RPM's funny?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Wed Jun 24 23:55:52 UTC 2009


Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Is there something funny about rpm in Fedora 11 that causes cpio errors 
> when trying to install src.rpm's in CentOS 5.3, or am I just getting 
> repeated bad downloads?
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Ah -

https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=70857&forum=11

Seems like rpm in Fedora 11 does some stuff that breaks backwards 
compatibility.

Are they any utilities, other than installing Fedora 11 and setting the 
macros described in that thread and rebuilding the src.rpm, to resolve 
the issue?



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