RE: RPM won't open packages with major number <3


Subject: RE: RPM won't open packages with major number <3
From: Pete Peters (ppeters914@home.com)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 08:56:01 MDT


Don't forget to rebuild the rpm database 'rpm --rebuilddb' before you
use the newer rpm. From previous posts, this is *ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT*
for rpm 4.x.

Pete
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Pete Peters <ppeters914@home.com>
Seattle, Washington, USA
Are we having fun yet?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Paul J. Lucas [mailto:pauljlucas@mac.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 10:50 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: RPM won't open packages with major number <3

On Wed, 23 May 2001, David C. Hacker, DVM wrote:

> Is there a newer version of rpm? I downloaded a newer version of pppd
to
> try to get ppp working with the 2.4.2 kernel but rpm says this version
of
> rpm won't open packages with major number <3. any ideas would be
> appreciated.

        Are you sure that's not >3 ? rpm verion 3.0.5 installed allows
        newer rpms and older.

        - Paul



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