[Rpm-maint] apparently broken 'rpm2cpio' in rpm-4.9.*

[Sergei Steshenko]

Hello,

I've built rpm-4.9.0, rpm-4.9.1, rpm-4.9.1.1 and using
'rpm2cpio' from them running a command line like this:

/mnt/sdb8/sergei/AFSWD_debug/20110601/rpm-4.9.0/binsh/rpm2cpio ../java-1_6_0-sun-1.6.0.u26-0.2.1.i586.rpm | /home/sergei/junk/cpio-2.11/src/cpio -ivd 2>&1 | less

I'm getting a lot of error messages like these:

/home/sergei/junk/cpio-2.11/src/cpio: Malformed number
/home/sergei/junk/cpio-2.11/src/cpio: warning: skipped 7892 bytes of junk
.

The messages are followed gibberish on some lines.


Using 'rpm2cpio' of (apparently) version 4.4.2.3 does not cause
these messages and the command line works as expected. So the Java RPM
I'm using a tes t case is apaprently OK.

This 'rpm2cpio' version 4.4.2.3 is a stock one on my machine.


Since I'm not hacking the source most likely it's a problem
with 'rpm' source.

I can't build easily earlier 'rpm'  versions because my Berkeley db
is too new for them.

Regards,
  Sergei.