cpio: Malformed number

2010-02-18 02:02

This one time I have to deal with rpm packages and this happens:

$ rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -id
cpio: Malformed number

....and only garbage is being passed to cpio. Since RPM now comes with XZ/LZMA compression support, we have to prepare this for cpio until rpm2cpio will be fixed:

$ rpm2cpio file.rpm | lzma -d | cpio -id
7090 blocks