Bug 78751

Summary:	Strange error message: read manifest failed: Success
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description Pierre Sarrazin 2002-11-28 23:10:46 UTC

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Description of problem:
When attempting to install (with -U) certain files that are not
RPM files, the error message "read manifest failed: Success" is
displayed.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.4-7x

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo '#' >foo.txt
2. rpm -U foo.txt


Actual Results:  foo.txt: read manifest failed: Success


Expected Results:  The word "Success" should not be there.
Perhaps the rpm command could better detect that the file
is not a valid binary RPM.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-11-29 14:46:03 UTC

Fixed (by removing the misleading "Success")
in rpm-4.1.