srpm build error

[Jos Vos]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 02:46:04PM +0100, Athiqur Rahman wrote:

> I am trying to build freeradius rpm by following the instructions at 
> http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ#How_to_build_an_SRPM
> 
> I however get the follwing errors at the fist step
> 
> # rpm -ivh freeradius-2.1.7-7.fc12.src.rpm
>  1:freeradius             warning: user mockbuild does not exist - 
> using root
> warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
> ########################################### [100%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
> /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/freeradius-logrotate;4be01a23: cpio: MD5 sum 
> mismatch
> 
> I did a rpm -K which shows
> 
> # rpm -K freeradius-2.1.7-7.fc12.src.rpm
> freeradius-2.1.7-7.fc12.src.rpm: sha1 md5 OK
> 
> I installed all the rpm-build packages before hand so do not know why 
> this is happening. I am using Centos 5.4

I think this is related to the changes for RPM since F11.  You can not
unpack F11/F12 RPMs on F < 11 and RHEL/CentOS < 6.

If this is the case, unpack the src.rpm with "rpm2cpio" on a F11+ system
and copy the files to the appropriates places (SOURCES and SPECS) on
your CentOS system.

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