Re: rpm2cpio fails on redhat-artwork build for fifth toe

[George J Karabin <gkarabin pobox com>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="George J Karabin">
>
>  
>
> > When building the fifth toe, redhat-artwork fails when I use the 
> > provided rpm2cpio perl script. Replacing it with the rpm2cpio binary 
> > provided by Redhat 8.0 solves the problem. Any ideas why the script 
> > isn't working?
> >    
>
> No, but it doesn't seem to work on RH8. No idea why. Could you please look
> into it further? I don't have an RH8 box handy.
>
> - Jeff
>
>  

After a quick look, it appears that the script is looking for a magic 
number at the wrong offset into the rpm file. Looking at the file in hex 
shows that the data is there. My first guess is that the "read" calls 
are reading out more bytes than requested - looking at the file pointer 
(instrumenting the code with the "tell" function) makes it seem  like 
it's moving along further than I would have thought. I'm not too 
familiar with using perl this way though, so I might not be grokking it.

Anyway, Redhat's using perl 5.8.0. I wonder if something has changed 
since 5.6.x? Are you using 5.8.x, or something else?