On my 7.1 box I ran into the same. Went to the rpm ftp site, found my
version & incrementally upgraded from there (by way of RH rpms) until I hit
3.0.5-27mdk, where life seems to be good. Haven't seen anyone post a
shorter-cut. This one, at least, is safe. I did a manual rebuilddb after
each step. There will be 2 pkgs to upgrade at some point along the way.
Don't attempt to up bzip2 - that's a hornet's nest. There's a libbzip you
can grab that'll do the job.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lou Baccari
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:04 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] FW: RPM annoyance
One of my users is having the following problem with rpm, any ideas on how
to correct it?
Thanks,
Lou
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Viola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 10:42 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RPM annoyance
Anyone know anything about this???
Someone has changed the format of RPM's. See below:
[root@bayes viola]# rpm -i -vv xfig-3.2.3c-3.i386.rpm
D: counting packages to install
D: found 1 packages
D: looking for packages to download
D: retrieved 0 packages
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
RPM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
error: xfig-3.2.3c-3.i386.rpm cannot be installed
D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages
[root@bayes viola]# rpm -v
RPM version 3.0.4
Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software
This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
The problem is that I cannot seem to gracefully upgrade RPM itself. I
have a Mandrake 7.1 system.
Thanks,
Paul
