what does "unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic" mean?

[Joseph Cheek]

and why would i get it?

scenario: i built an rpm with v3.0.6. worked fine, rpm's installed fine
but it stripped my executables. so i added:

%__os_install_post \
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress \
/usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note \
%{nil}

to ~/.rpmmacros, effectively removing brp-strip from the post-install
process.

now rpm's build fine but the particular rpm which i wanted to be not
stripped now fails to install with:

sanfrancisco:/usr/src/RedmondLinux/RPMS/i586# rpm -Uvh
XFree86-server-4.0.2-26rl.i586.rpm --force
XFree86-server
##################################################
unpacking of archive failed: cpio: Bad magic

i'm not sure what i need to do to fix this. could this be a bad rpm
compile? i built rpm myself rather than using a prebuilt binary.

a related question: is it possible to redefine macros in .spec files?
this is the only rpm i don't want stripped, and i'd much rather redefine
%__os_install_post in the .spec file than edit my .rpmmacros for just
this package.

thanks!

joe

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[Gavin Graham]

Joseph Cheek wrote:

Hi,

I was getting the same thing until I fixed the SCSI ID's on my Hard Disks.