Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't install rpm-packages From: Robert Collins To: Eckehardt Luhm Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <200305190911.h4J9Bpi07845@mailgate5.cinetic.de> References: <200305190911.h4J9Bpi07845@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BdpK9AB5ijiGMXmxfv8i" Organization: Message-Id: <1053335924.957.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 19 May 2003 19:18:44 +1000 --=-BdpK9AB5ijiGMXmxfv8i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 19:11, Eckehardt Luhm wrote: > > Re: Can't install rpm-packages > > From: Dario Alcocer > > Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:18:09 -0700 > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > >=20 > >=20 > > On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:56:55PM +0200, Eckehardt Luhm wrote: > >=20 > >> Greetings! > >>=20 > >> When trying to install an rpm (I tried a lot!), I get the following > >> error: > >=20 > > [snip error message] > >=20 > > It looks like the rpm file you downloaded is corrupted. >=20 > Oh wow... shame on me, a typical case of RTFM. I found the problem. The > path from which I tried to install the rpm's was mounted in textmode. > Mounted in binary I can install rpm's without any trouble. I wasn't > aware that rpm isn't able to distinguish between binaryfiles and textfile= s. Thats a bug in the RPM package, not a bug in your expectations ;]. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-BdpK9AB5ijiGMXmxfv8i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+yKFzI5+kQ8LJcoIRAl9tAKCqnwOOPOnDTWNihbINriM8sjNUyACgsxgT Fd6KJX35Mhg/g0gBV1D8OxI= =ziYz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BdpK9AB5ijiGMXmxfv8i--