[magick-users] src rpm MD5 problem

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:37:21 +0200
Noel da Costa <noel at arc2.co.uk> wrote:

| Hi there,
| 
| I'm trying to install ImageMagick from the source rpm using rpmbuild -- 
| rebuild
| This has worked for me before, but today I'm getting the following  
| error:
| 
| error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ 
| ImageMagick-6.4.9-8.tar.bz2;49af9e28: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
| 
| 
| I had downloaded the src.rpm into /tmp/im... and then run rpmbuild -- 
| rebuild on it. So I'm not sure where the directory listed above comes  
| into the equation.
| 
The md5 checksum means the RPM package is corruped somewhere.

the directory is where your system was trying to unpack the source.

I myself like to generate my own RPM source package from either the TAR
or the Subversion download. This lets me modify the 'spec' file to change
the configuration options (to add Liquid Resize, Encryption, etc), and
still generate a proper software package for easy cleanup and updates.

See my build notes in  IM Usage Examples, API, Scripting and Building
  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#building


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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