Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Can't install rpm-packages
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
To: Eckehardt Luhm <bselu AT web DOT de>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
In-Reply-To: <200305190911.h4J9Bpi07845@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
References: <200305190911 DOT h4J9Bpi07845 AT mailgate5 DOT cinetic DOT 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 <alcocer AT helixdigital DOT com>
> > Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 07:18:09 -0700
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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: <http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt>.

--=-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--