RPM compatability

[Paul King]

The PERL command (/usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Rpm.pm, line 153) says 

$this->do("rpm2cpio ".$this->filename." | (cd $workdir; cpio --extract -
-make-directories --no-absolute-filenames --preserve-modification-time)
2>&1")
                or die "Unpacking of '".$this->filename."' failed";


On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 22:10 -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> What does the file command say it is?
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