The problem I'm submitting to the competent and kind mandrake community
seems to have been fairly common fìof late.
May be somedy who solved it can help me.I have Mandrake 7.0 and Rpm 3.03-43mdk.
A few days ago I attempted to install a new package using Rpm -i, and got
the answer:"Only packages witn major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of Rpm".
I then tried to install a more recent version of Rpm (version 4.02) and
which has been my surprise when I got the same answer.How did you solve this problem? Richard -Gilligan- Uschold seems to have
found a solution, but may-be He could give me a more detailed explanation.
Did he upgrade first from 3.03 to 3.04, then 3.05, and so on, until version
4? And what he mens whe he says he rebuilded the database at every step?Is'nt there a quicker and more human way to do it?
Thank you very much, anyway.
By the way, do you know what a major number is in the Rpm context?
Near as I can tell, the above a problem and the one below, are caused
by kpackage, and are not caused by rpm. These errors do not exist
when running rpm from the command line.
dependency errors;
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1rint11
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
I have kpackage-1.3.10-1mdk, the latest available for KDE 1.1.x I get these same errors with all versions of rpm between 3.0.3-43mdk and 3.0.5-17mdk. I tried it as I upgraded one at a time. I've only tried rpm-3.0.5-27mdk from the command line, though, I suspect the other versions won't show the problem either.
Perhaps other GUI package managers don't have this problem. I tried several others, but they failed for other reasons, and I haven't bothered looking into that.
While I didn't actually solve the problem, I have isolated it and I have a solid workaround.
I know, runing rpm from the command line is a bit harder, but it works!
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