[lug] where to get latest mount

[D. Stimits]

Rick Casey wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
>   Thanks for the help; no has helped me out yet, so your late response is
> still appreciated.
> 
>   But same old story: after running rpm --rebuilddb (as root), I still get
> the same error message:
> 
> [root at rickcasey temp]# rpm -Uvh db3*.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: db3-3.1.17-5.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> 
> Something very basic is still wrong. My rpm version is:
> RPM version 3.0.4
> 
> It sure seems, logically, that I would need to build a new RPM from source
> files, given my rpm version cannot install any of the newer versions.
> 
> Appreciate the help!
> --Rick
> +----------------------------------------------+
> | Rick Casey, grad student, Telecommunications |
> | Univ. of Colorado at Boulder                 |
> | homepage: rtt.colorado.edu/~caseyh           |
> | caseyh at colorado.edu                          |
> +----------------------------------------------+

Here is a quote (excerpt) of a Redhat doc on doing this:


Subject: 
            [RHEA-2001:016-04] rpm-4.0.2 for all Red Hat platforms and
releases.
      Date: 
            Wed, 21 Mar 2001 14:52 -0500
     From: 
            redhat-announce-list-admin at redhat.com
 Reply-To: 
            redhat-announce-list at redhat.com
        To: 
            redhat-watch-list at redhat.com




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                   Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis:          rpm-4.0.2 for all Red Hat platforms and releases.
Advisory ID:       RHEA-2001:016-04
Issue date:        2001-02-19
Updated on:        2001-03-21
Product:           Red Hat Linux
Keywords:          rpm
Cross references:  
Obsoletes:         
---------------------------------------------------------------------

1. Topic:

[ Correction for the previously released errata for rpm, which should
have
been an Enhancement, not a security, errata]

A common version of rpm for all Red Hat distributions is being released.
This version of rpm understands legacy version 3 packaging used in Red
Hat 6.x/5.x distributions as well as version 4 packaging used in Red Hat
7.x.
In addition, rpm-4.0.2 has support for both the legacy db1 format used
in
Red Hat 6.x/5.x databases as well as support for the db3 format database
used in Red Hat 7.x

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 5.2 - alpha, i386, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - alpha, i386, sparc

Red Hat Linux 7.0 - alpha, i386

3. Problem description:

Several potential problems

1) Red Hat 6.x/5.x users will need to install the db3 packages from
    RHEA-2001:015-09.

2) Red Hat 5.x users should note that the default compiler flags in rpm
    have changed, and are not compatible with the gcc originally shipped
    with Red Hat 5.2. Use egcs as a compiler instead.

3) Red Hat 6.x/5.x users should convert from db1 to db3 format dtabases
at
    your earliest convience. This can be done by running, as root, the
    command
        rpm --rebuilddb
    Support for legacy db1 format rpm databases will be removed in the
next
    release of rpm.

4) All platforms: If you chose to install rpm-4.0.2, and then go back to
a
    previous version of rpm, then you will experience segfaults due to
an
    incompatible change in headers in the database. The problem is in
    legacy versions of rpm going back to rpm-3.0, and is both caused and
    fixed by rpm-4.0.2. This incompatibility also applies to any/all
    applications that are statically linked against rpm libraries which
    should either be upgraded or recompiled to use rpm-4.0.2 libraries.
    Applications that use shared libraries should not be affected by
this
    problem.

5) All platforms: rpm-4.0.2 will fail to install if you have both db1
and
    db3 rpm databases in /var/lib/rpm. If the packages do not install,
    please check the directory /var/lib/rpm for the files "packages.rpm"
    (the db1 format headers) and "Packages" (the db3 format headers)
    and rename/remove the older or smaller of the two files in order to 
    upgrade.

4. Solution:

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh <filenames>

where <filenames> is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade.  Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated.  Those RPMs which
are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated.  Note that
you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directly *only* contains
the
desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. 
Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates.  To use Red Hat
Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the
appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):



6. RPMs required:


Red Hat Linux 6.2:

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/SRPMS/rpm-4.0.2-6x.src.rpm


i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/rpm-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/rpm-devel-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/rpm-build-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/popt-1.6.2-6x.i386.rpm


Red Hat Linux 7.0:

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/SRPMS/rpm-4.0.2-7x.src.rpm


i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/rpm-4.0.2-7x.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/rpm-devel-4.0.2-7x.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/rpm-build-4.0.2-7x.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/rpm-python-4.0.2-7x.i386.rpm
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/popt-1.6.2-7x.i386.rpm