The following reply was made to PR pkg/34462; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: tron@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	p@ppires.org
Subject: Re: pkg/34462 (rpm2pkg cannot install suse100_libpng on amd64)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 15:50:55 +0200

 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:45:02AM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/34462; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Matthias Scheler <tron@NetBSD.org>
 > To: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <p@ppires.org>
 > Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Subject: Re: pkg/34462 (rpm2pkg cannot install suse100_libpng on amd64)
 > Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:41:06 +0100
 > 
 >  On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:39:41PM -0300, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:
 >  > [...]  Running the command by hand failed with both amd64 and i386
 >  > versions of rpm2pkg.
 >  > 
 >  > Other .rpms have been successfully installed.
 >  
 >  Let me try to summeraize the facts:
 >  1.) "rpm2pkg" works on LP64 platforms and doesn't have a general
 >      portability problems.
 >  2.) The error message means that the RPM library returns an error.
 >  
 >  Possible reasons I can imagine:
 >  1.) A bug in the RPM library.
 >  2.) The RPM is corrupt (!= failed to download correctly) or in a format
 >      which requires a newer version of the RPM library.
 >  
 >  I'll try to find somebody who uses this packages on a NetBSD-amd64 system
 >  to debug this.
 
 I just checked on my -current NetBSD/amd64, and it looks like the
 problem comes from the provided RPM (i tried to download many times,
 and got the same results ...).
 
 njoly@lanfeust [emulators/suse100_libpng]> rpm -qvv -p /local/src/NetBSD/pkgsrc/distfiles/suse100/x86_64/libpng-1.2.8-5.x86_64.rpm
 D: New Header signature
 D: Signature size: 264
 D: Signature pad : 0
 D: sigsize         : 264
 D: Header + Archive: 192360
 D: expected size   : 192365
 query of /local/src/NetBSD/pkgsrc/distfiles/suse100/x86_64/libpng-1.2.8-5.x86_64.rpm failed
 
 For reference, here follow a good result :
 
 njoly@lanfeust [emulators/suse100_libpng]> rpm -qvv -p /local/src/NetBSD/pkgsrc/distfiles/suse100/x86_64/libjpeg-6.2.0-739.x86_64.rpm
 D: New Header signature
 D: Signature size: 264
 D: Signature pad : 0
 D: sigsize         : 264
 D: Header + Archive: 69701
 D: expected size   : 69701
 libjpeg-6.2.0-739
 
 -- 
 Nicolas Joly
 
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