[CentOS] Help with yum and cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, James B. Byrne wrote:

make. Everything built without error. I then ran checkinstall ...

checkinstall is a third party solution and does not keep up too well

Running Transaction Installing : ruby-1.8.7 1/1 Error unpacking rpm package ruby-1.8.7-p302-1.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/make;4cf56119: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

try a local install with rpm rather than yum; and add the --nomd5 option there. that said, if it is encountering a later compression (think: xz), you'll need to address the matter with a 'real' rebuild

-- Russ herrold