Re: magicdev troubles (cpio: premature end of archive)

[Bob Kashani <bobk ocf berkeley edu>]

cd gnome/magicdev/files
mv rpm2cpio rpm2cpio.old
ln -s /usr/bin/rpm2cpio rpm2cpio
cd ..
make makesum && make install

Bob

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 16:20, Stephen Blake wrote:
> [Apologies if this comes twice, I sent it once before from another
> account that isn't subscribed to this list.]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Having some trouble with gnome-fifth-toe. Take a look:
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/garnome/gar/garnome-0.23.1/gnome/magicdev'
> --19:08:58-- 
> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe-3/en/os/i386/SRPMS/magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm
>            => `download/partial/magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm'
> Resolving ftp.redhat.com... done.
> Connecting to ftp.redhat.com[66.187.232.51]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 140,618 [application/x-rpm]
>  
> 100%[========================================================================================================>] 140,618      323.87K/s    ETA 00:00
>  
> 19:08:59 (323.87 KB/s) - `download/partial/magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm'
> saved [140618/140618]
>  
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/garnome/gar/garnome-0.23.1/gnome/magicdev'
>  ==> Grabbing download/rpm2cpio
>         ==> Trying file//files/rpm2cpio
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/garnome/gar/garnome-0.23.1/gnome/magicdev'
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/garnome/gar/garnome-0.23.1/gnome/magicdev'
>         [fetch] complete for magicdev.
>  ==> Running checksum on magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm
> b31ff7c53801367dbf9835fefcf3e9f6  download/magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm
> file magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm passes checksum test!
>  ==> Running checksum on rpm2cpio
> eb97001af3b1854e4592fc2576f942f1  download/rpm2cpio
> file rpm2cpio passes checksum test!
>         [checksum] complete for magicdev.
> install -d work/main.d
>  ==> Extracting download/magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm
> Error: header not recognized
> cpio: premature end of archive
> make[1]: *** [extract-magicdev-1.1.4-2.src.rpm] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/garnome/gar/garnome-0.23.1/gnome/magicdev'
> make: *** [../../gnome/magicdev/cookies/main.d/install] Error 2
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Stephen
-- 
Bob Kashani