Re: rpm2cpio fails on redhat-artwork build for fifth toe

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="George J Karabin">

> After a quick look, it appears that the script is looking for a magic 
> number at the wrong offset into the rpm file. Looking at the file in hex 
> shows that the data is there. My first guess is that the "read" calls 
> are reading out more bytes than requested - looking at the file pointer 
> (instrumenting the code with the "tell" function) makes it seem  like 
> it's moving along further than I would have thought. I'm not too 
> familiar with using perl this way though, so I might not be grokking it.

Weird... It's not like the RPM has changed, or it's relying on different
software underneath...

> Anyway, Redhat's using perl 5.8.0. I wonder if something has changed 
> since 5.6.x? Are you using 5.8.x, or something else?

Yeah, 5.8.0 here. Grr. I'll ask some of the 'hatters to see what they think.

Thanks heaps for bashing on it!

- Jeff (very pleased with his sigmonster)

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