On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:38:36PM +0100, Frank Meurer wrote:
>
> Funny and stupid thing:
>
> meurer@obelix:~> rpm -i rpm-4.0-17mdk.src.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-17mdk.src.rpm cannot be installed
>
The usual way is to upgrade to rpm-3.0.5 which is then able to install
RPM 4.x ..
> Isn't it stupid to build the rpm-4.x-rpms with rpm4?
> It's as bad as tar-1.1.3.tar or gzip.gz, isn't it?
>
> Please build the rpm-4-rpms in the old format.
this would break the local RPM database, wouldn't it?
Christian
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