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

On Wed, 24 Jun 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?

the former.  I covered the matter and a workaround within RPM 
in a series of blog posts called:
 	Oh .. My ... Goodness
available through:
 	http://planet.centos.org/
a couple of months ago.

-- Russ herrold