I want to install die Informix clientsdk.2.81.UC3.LINUX-I32 to access a informixserver. The procedure of installing the software requires to extract an cpio-file. This is done by: cpio -icdumvB < csdk.cpi If I do this with gentoo, I get the following error: cpio: premature end of file The same with SuSE is just running. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download clientsdk.2.81.UC3.LINUX-I32.tar from IBM 2. Extract it 3. cpio -icdumvB < csdk.cpi 4. Repeat the steps with SuSE Linux Actual Results: cpio: premature end of file. Cant get the installation done Expected Results: Just install bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r2 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl da dga directfb dvd encode esd ethereal fbcon firebird flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib innodb java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mbox mcal mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oci8 oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp python qt quicktime readline ruby samba scanner sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
cpio Gentoo: bash-2.05b$ cpio --version GNU cpio version 2.5 cpio SuSE: informix@suse:~> cpio --version GNU cpio version 2.5 informix@suse:~>
doesnt look to be a Gentoo problem, sounds more like the file is broken
