David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I built the SRPM for it, then went to install the RPM.  If 
> /usr/lib/rpm/i586-mandrake-linux exists, it chokes and dies on some cpio 
> error (man I hate cpio, why does RPM use it?  that's for another day I guess)

AFAIK, -1- cpio has checksum for errors while tar doesn't have
(didn't have?) -2- cpio had support for longer filenames when tar
didn't have (it changed now).



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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/

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