Fedora 11 / EPEL 5 MD5 Issue

[Farkas Levente]

Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Thursday 16 July 2009 09:51:32 am Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 16:32, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr.<rvinyard at cs.nmsu.edu> 
> wrote:
>>> I've built the following package on Fedora 10 and 11 in mock without any
>>> problems.
>>>     http://miskatonic.cs.nmsu.edu/pub/libMini-9.0.3-2.fc11.src.rpm
>>>
>>> However, when I try and build for EPEL 5 using mock on a F11 machine I
>>> get the following in root.log:
>>>
>>> DEBUG util.py:256:  error: unpacking of archive failed on file
>>> /builddir/build/SOURCES/MINI-9.0.3.zip;4a5f3532: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>> I did the following two days ago (all on a F11 host) :
>> - rebuild the F11 srpm in a F10 mock chroot
>> - rebuild the F10 srpm in a EL5 mock chroot
>>
>> F11 and F10 rpm versions are compatible, and so are F10 and EL5.
>>
>> Totally suboptimal, but it works, and I didn't have time to search
>> more thoroughly for a better solution :)
> 
> just for this type of thing i added a new script to fedora-packager  rpmbuild-
> md5  it creates rpms/srpms with the old style hashes.  its a simple bash 
> script that is a wrapper around rpmbuild with the defines for old style hashes.  
> the fedora-packager with it is in updates-testing.

the real problem is that you can't rebuild fedora's src.rpm on epel. the
real good thing would be add a script which will be rebuild the new
src.rpms.

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