Jesse Keating wrote:
On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:23, BFD wrote:
For the file from my Fedora cd:
$md5sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm dd4249018c1674b73e9ddab08828303f yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm $sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm 29472 127
For the file I downloaded
$md5sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
8a82c3f05fca0a615d1765394376f809 yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
$sum yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
47550 127
Try actually using "file" on the file. A file extension is by no means an indication as to what the file actually is.
eg:
[root@petra root]# echo "I am not an RPM" > myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm [root@petra root]# rpm -ivh myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm error: myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm cannot be installed [root@petra root]# file myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm myrpm-1.1-1.noarch.rpm: ASCII text
My guess is that you got a 404 page when you downloaded the file, but it's html content in a file named foo.rpm.
I am not so sure this could be as there were no error messages when I downloaded it. This was done twice, once by http from RH's site, and once by ftp from ibiblio.
The md5sum and sum results on both files were the same; the contents were the same when viewed with the less command; and the results of the file command showed type data.
I would report this, but from the responses (or lack thereof) on this list, I may be the only one having the problem, and I am not sure who to tell at RH.
BFD
