On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in: > > > > > > RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm (RPM) > > > > I tried to install git from source RPM... and failed: > > > > $ rpmbuild --rebuild git-1.6.5.2-1.fc11.src.rpm > > Installing git-1.6.5.2-1.fc11.src.rpm > > warning: user junio does not exist - using root > > warning: group junio does not exist - using root > > error: unpacking of archive failed on file > > /home/local/builddir/SOURCES/git-1.6.5.2.tar.gz; > > 4afb1f6a: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch > > error: git-1.6.5.2-1.fc11.src.rpm cannot be installed > > > > Error messages are line wrapped for better readibility. > > It looks like the kernel.org builders are now using Fedora 11 to > create the packages. Unfortunately, there were backward-incompatible > changes in rpm. Stronger hashes are now used and older rpm versions > do not understand these, leading to the error you got. Thanks for an information. Well, it looks like I would have to use "make rpm" to generate RPM to install, at least until I finally upgrade my Linux distribution. -- Jakub Narebski Poland -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html