[Yast-users] problem installing yast on new oel4-U5 system

[Phillip Brown]

I have been trying to install yast2 on a new oel4-u5, with latest (as of
today) updates.

It all goes fine until it gets to installing yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
(which is the current one available from oss.oracle.com).

[root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -Uvh yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:yast-EM                ###########################################
[100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic
[root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -q cpio
cpio-2.5-13.RHEL4
[root at appserver05 ~]# cpio --version
GNU cpio version 2.5
[root at appserver05 ~]# rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.3.3-23_nonptl.0.1
[root at appserver05 ~]# rpm2cpio yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm | cpio -it
cpio: premature end of archive

rpm -q on the file works, but not actually installing


on my opensuse 10.3 laptop, I can do

pbrown at arisia:~/temp> rpm2cpio yast-EM-1.0.0-0.2.rpm | cpio -it
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-dns.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-host.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-network-devices.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-nfs-client.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-routing.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-services.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/EM-test.ycp
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/GPL
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/LICENSE
./usr/share/YaST2/clients/RunYast.sh
173 blocks
pbrown at arisia:~/temp> cpio --version
cpio (GNU cpio) 2.9

any ideas?

p.s. I would have logged a bugzilla, but yast2 does not appear as a
choice for logging a bug.

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Phillip Brown
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