At 06:46 AM 2/13/01, Christian Bricart wrote:
>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 ..
>
>this would break the local RPM database, wouldn't it?
It does, but the breakage is easily corrected. Simply run "rpm --rebuilddb".
>Christian
>
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>Things that make you go "Hmmm":
> "If a train station is where the train stops, what is a workstation?"
>
