[PLUG] Rebuilding my kernel

Nathan Meyers nmeyers at javalinux.net
Tue Mar 26 19:39:06 UTC 2002


On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 11:25:18AM -0800, Jon Jacob wrote:
> I am trying to recompile my kernel in hopes of getting IEEE1394
> support.  So, I grabbed the rpms for the kernel-source and
> kernel-headers for 2.4.18-0.8 but when I run the rpm for the headers I
> get the following error:
> 
> "error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/include/asm: cpio:
> rename failed - Is a directory"
> 
> How do I get around this error?

That's a strange conflict. What distro? What RPMs do you currently have
installed that have "kernel" in the name, what are the new RPMs you're
trying to install, and where did you get them?

Nathan




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