On 02.03 Altoine B. wrote:
> "J . A . Magallon" wrote:
> >
> > On 02.02 Lou Baccari wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > rpm package is version 4.
> > rpm-3.0.4 can not deal with v4 packages, 3.0.5 can.
> >
>
> Correction, the package that he is trying to install is rpm3 or less
> while his package manager is rpm 4. That particular package would only
> unpackage with a package manager of rpm 3.0.5 or less. I recommend
> getting the source for that package and compiling it that way.
>
That is how you understand this ??:
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
^^^
so this rpm is only for <= v3 packages, and package is v4.
AH, i got you, when I said 'rpm package', I did not meant rpm.rpm, but
xfig.rpm (as opposite to, for example, deb package or tgz package...).
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