Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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
tas has checksums (standard ones and incompatible sun ones) [slowlaris sucks] gzip hasn't, bzip2 has robust ones. > (didn't have?) -2- cpio had support for longer filenames when tar > didn't have > (it changed now). only GNU tar support this
