Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 70875
Error: unpacking of archive failed on file xxx: cpio: Archive file not in header
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; T312461) Description of problem: I have a package installed on RH 6.0 without error. Now I want to install the same package on RH 7.2, without success. rpm2cpio works, the result can be unpacked with cpio without error Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm 4.0.3 and 4.0.4-7x tried How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -i --nodeps <package> Actual Results: Error message Additional info: The package itself is the Legato Networker Client software for RH 5.2.1 This is a severe error, we are unable to save / backup more than 20 GB Harddisk!!
Hmmm, that's a really old package, and was probably produced by a buggy version of rpm. If you supply a URL to the package, I'll verify what the problem is. Perhaps I can fix, but maintaining a lot of weird and untestable hacks in the current rpm sources to work around bugs in early versions of rpm isn't high on my priority list. The simplest thing to do is to extract all the bits and repackage with a current version of rpm using rpm2cpio. That's a better solution than always installing with --nodeps as well.
Hi! This is an official CD from Legato - I have no URL. It is installed on a "lot of" Linux (RH 5.x, RH 6.x) without error. --nodeps needed because the package depends on libncurses.3.0 - which is unavailable. The package is sent by email to jbj@redhat.com
Created attachment 69326 [details] Patch to cpioStrCmp() in lib/fsm.c to handle lgtoclnt-rh
OK, that package has only the last component of the file path in the cpio headers. Attached is a patch for rpm to fix, but you'll have to build a custom version of rpm with the patch enabled. I cannot do this by default as the patch might open a window for trojaned package payloads. The right thing to do is repackage the executables for the lgtoclnt, possibly including the ncurses libraray from Red Hat 5.1.
jbj, this is a duplicate of #49688. If you want re-built Legato RPM packages, I made them a year ago, send mail.