Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 69751
Installing non-RPM file gives cryptic error
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:03 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: Sometimes HTML files are downloaded in place of RPMs. When you try to install these HTML files via rpm -ivh (on the command line), the command fails with a cryptic error "read manifest failed: Success". Please change this error message to say something more intuitive. Example: "You have tried to install an invalid RPM file. Please check that your file is a valid RPM and try again." This will prevent confusion of those who don't realize that they have actually downloaded an HTML file instead of an RPM file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download a file with the RPM extension that is actually an HTML file. (This usually happens unknowingly; hence the confusion.) 2. Install using rpm -i or rpm -ivh from the command line. Actual Results: Error: read manifest failed: Success Expected Results: The RPM command should have explained the real problem -- that the file is not a valid RPM. Additional info:
Fixed (i.e. "not an rpm package (or package manifest)") in rpm-4.1-0.71. The Success was fixed previously.