[PLUG] rpm question

[Christopher N. Deckard]

rpm4 is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from rpm3.  My personal advice is to not
install rpm4 unless you want to risk destroying your entire system. 
rpm4 uses a different database than does rpm3, so migration to it might
be risky.  Hopefully there is an upgrade path, but I'd read up on it
first.

But, if you are so inclined, you need to somehow extract the source from
the src rpm, and the spec file.  Then modify the spec file to be rpm3
compliant, then build the source and create an rpm.

That was my understanding of the steps when I talked with some others
who needed to get at some source that was in an rpm4 format src rpm. 
Pretty messy if I do say so myself.

-Chris

Josh Guffin wrote:
> 
> i just tried to update my version of rpm with the latest version from
> redhat's beta directory on csociety.  (rpm-4.0-0.59.i386.rpm)
> 
> rpm complains that:
> 
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-0.59.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> 
> how can i install this package?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> josh
> 
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