RPM compatability

[Kevin Cozens]

On Feb 2, 2008 6:51 PM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>         argument is not an RPM package
>         cpio: premature end of archive
>
> Well, the argument *was* an RPM as you can see above, but these are the
> same errors as seen under alien.

I think I have had a similar problem a long time ago. The way I solved it was 
to find the source for the program needed to extract the files from the 
package, recompile, then run the older version of the packaging tool. It 
shouldn't be too hard to find older source for the rpm program.

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