[lug] Redhat 6.2 RPM v3 to RPM v4

[Greg Horne]

Oh yeah, it's major numbers <=3 not minor numbers

>From: "John Hernandez" <John.Hernandez at noaa.gov>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] Redhat 6.2 RPM v3 to RPM v4
>Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 16:33:15 -0600
>
>Try getting the RPM4 SRPM (from the roswell beta on ftp.redhat.com), and 
>then do:
>
>rpm --rebuild <rpm-4-whatever.srpm>
>
>rpm -U /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<rpm-4.whatever.rpm>
>
>Greg Horne wrote:
> >
> > When I was upgrading some packages on my system a few said that I need 
>rpm
> > version 4.  So I go to install version 4 and the rpm for it tells me I 
>need
> > libdb-3.1 and libpopt.so.0.  I found the packages for them (db3-3.1 and
> > popd-1.6-4)  When I tried to install those, I was told that rpm can only
> > install packages with a major number <= 3.  I'm stuck in a loop!  I 
>can't
> > install rpm4 because it's dependencies need rpm 4 to install.  What do I 
>do?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> >
> > Greg
> >
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