id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 8,install fails on some packages,dmik,Yuri Dario,"Doing e.g. {{{ yum install ncurses }}} gives this: {{{ Running Transaction Installing : ncurses-5.7-1.i386 1/1 Error unpacking rpm package ncurses-5.7-1.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /@unixroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.7/ANNOUNCE: cpio: rename Failed: ncurses.i386 0:5.7-1 }}} Unpacking the ncurses RPM manually (with unrpm) gives this: {{{ cpio: ./@unixroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.7/ANNOUNCE: Cannot change mode to r--r--r--: Permission denied cpio: ./@unixroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.7/AUTHORS: Cannot change mode to r--r--r--: Permission denied cpio: ./@unixroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.7/NEWS: Cannot change mode to r--r--r--: Permission denied cpio: ./@unixroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.7/README: Cannot change mode to r--r--r--: Permission denied cpio: ./@unixroot/usr/share/doc/ncurses-5.7/TO-DO: Cannot change mode to r--r--r--: Permission denied 1411 blocks }}}",defect,closed,major,,yum,1.0,,invalid,"rpm,yum,bootstrap",Al Savage