Jos Vos wrote:

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

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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.

Thanks. You are right about about using old versions of Fedora. I didn't have old fedora machine so used the the following command rpm --nomd5 -ivh freeradius-2.1.7-7.fc12.src.rpm After that I followed the instructions as normal and ended up with the required RPMs. All except for freeradius-libs freeradius-devel Are these 2 RPMs essential to the core running of freeradius?