Bug 837945

Summary: Can't extract rpms from RHEL6 on RHEL5
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: jcpunk
Component: rpmAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.8CC: pmatilai
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Description jcpunk 2012-07-05 21:22:27 UTC
Description of problem: It would be nice if I could open rpms on RHEL5 that were made on RHEL6.  The rpm2cpio command reports:


cpio: warning: skipped 9230 bytes of junk
cpio: warning: archive header has reverse byte-order
?pio: k{?y?3?3????????hq?tI[Q????m?aI???�p???x?
 5p????hP#?	: unknown file type
cpio: premature end of file

Or similar.  It would be nice if the rpm could still be extracted.

This is not a request to install RHEL6 rpms on RHEL5, rather I just want rpm2cpio to work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):rpm-4.4.2.3-28.el5_8.i386



How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a source rpm build on RHEL6 with rpmbuild
2. put it on a RHEL5 box
3. try and run rpmbuild --rebuild on the source rpm
4. get errors on extraction.
  
Actual results: can't open rpm


Expected results: being able to open the rpm


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Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2013-03-07 10:49:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 602423 ***