On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Todd Zullinger wrote:

Jakub Narebski wrote:

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Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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The RPM binary packages for a few architectures are found in:

  RPMS/$arch/git-*-1.6.5.2-1.fc9.$arch.rpm	(RPM)

I tried to install git from source RPM... and failed:

  $ rpmbuild --rebuild git-1.6.5.2-1.fc11.src.rpm
  Installing git-1.6.5.2-1.fc11.src.rpm
  warning: user junio does not exist - using root
  warning: group junio does not exist - using root
  error: unpacking of archive failed on file
    /home/local/builddir/SOURCES/git-1.6.5.2.tar.gz;
    4afb1f6a: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
  error: git-1.6.5.2-1.fc11.src.rpm cannot be installed

Error messages are line wrapped for better readibility.

It looks like the kernel.org builders are now using Fedora 11 to
create the packages.  Unfortunately, there were backward-incompatible
changes in rpm.  Stronger hashes are now used and older rpm versions
do not understand these, leading to the error you got.

Thanks for an information.  

Well, it looks like I would have to use "make rpm" to generate RPM
to install, at least until I finally upgrade my Linux distribution.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland