This problem exists since prehistoric time....... I've been experience
this since rpm 2.x.x, and no way to resolve this so far. It teached me to
check all rpm files carefully before updating :-/
Abel Cheung
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Digital Wokan wrote:
> filesystem ######unpacking of archive failed on file
> /mnt/floppy: cpio: chown failed - No such file or directory
>
> Did something slightly different before this run. Last attempt listed
> the problem being with /mnt/cdrom. Tried symlinking cdrom to nfs in
> case filesystem was written assuming the rpm's were in some subdir of
> cdrom. Got an error about being a read-only filesystem. (Which is
> pretty much a given with CD-Rom's anyway one would think.)
>
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