On 03-Feb-2001 Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote:
> If that is the case, please explain the following error message to me, and
> how I
> correct it. Several other people have said I need to upgrade to rpm-4.0, or
> perhaps only 3.0.5 or 3.0.6. I get this error with both 3.0.3 and 3.0.5.
>
> The original symptoms:
> rpm gives this error message with some packages
> "only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of RPM"
>
> NOTE: this is not the usual dependency problem, the RPM program itself,
> fails to open "Guppi-0.35.2-1.i586.rpm", even for query!
There may be logic errors or unneeded version checking in your version of RPM.
What I'm trying to say is that binarywise they are the same. I would say look
at a late model version of RPM 3.x. The unneeded version check may be gone.
Regards,
Chris
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