Yum fails to install kernel-devel

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 2 May 2014 10:52:56 -0700, Luke Nath wrote:

> 
> yum -y update  updated more than 11500 packages, because I had not
> run updates for quite a while.

A direct upgrade from F18 to F20?
 
> Marking kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm as an update to kernel-devel-3.11.10-100.fc18.x86_64
> Marking kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm as an update to kernel-devel-3.13.6-200.fc20.x86_64

> Error unpacking rpm package kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64
> error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: mkdir
>   Verifying  : kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64

Since you're looking for a work-around, have you tried removing the
installed kernel-devel package and installing the new one afterwards?
It could be that you don't even need the files within it. In case there
are dependencies, plain old "rpm" knows how to deal with such a case.

> Here are the sums of the file:
> 
> # md5sum kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> 0d6418857d2c6ba112077a102d41d89e  kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> # sha512sum kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm
> 39ccd42b2ff94e941dd75071004dc73011e98c8b092290f84d5c861c6b1614c1ca7c4d0fea3e13fd155f91bb2d6f2b47bc53c5c909f27aff607f54746acd
> 77be  kernel-devel-3.14.2-200.fc20.x86_64.rpm

If you want to verify packages, run "rpm -Kv …" on the file.