Size of payload in header is incorrect - should be size of compressed payload, not uncompressed

[mharvey-jt]

Hi,

The size of the payload written to the Size header is incorrect. It should be the length of the compressed payload, not the sun of the sizes of the uncompressed payload files.
This makes the rpm2cpio program exit with a failure, as it does a comparison between the header value and that returned by librpm's ufdCopy() function.

[jarondl]

Are you sure? According to https://docs.fedoraproject.org/ro/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch-package-structure.html

The RPMTAG_SIZE tag holds the size of all the regular files in the payload

Doesn't the error actually mean that the cpio size is incorrect?

Also, is this the same as #61? Does it happen only with certain compression algos?

[mharvey-jt]

Interesting, I hadn't found the spec, but rather come to that conclusion by comparison with distro rpms.