Danger, danger, Will Robinson! This can lead to all sorts of fun.
1) BE SURE TO KEEP A COPY OF YOUR RPM 3.0! You may very well need it.
2) You *can* download a copy of RPM 4.0 that was packaged with 3.0 at
www.rpm.org -- I have yet to successfully upgrade, however, and I've
*tried*. If anyone has any pointers, I, too, would be most grateful.
What usually happens to me (after I get through what you've been through,
below) is that I get 4.0 installed... and find that it now keeps a
seperate database. So, *whammo*, all my dependencies are shot to
He^H^H^H A Hot Place. Essentially, it cripples RPM on my machine. With
my 3.0 executable, I can still see the RPM 3.x database... but I can't
find any way (yet) to merge them, and I'm afraid to get violent, as I
really don't want to totally munge my machine. Thus far, I've always had
to un-install RPM 4.0 (with the 3.0 executable), and get along with 3.0.
Note, however, that since Red Hat 7.0 allows you to upgrade from a
previous version, I *have* to assume that there's some way to bring over
the database, but I sure haven't found it, including lots of searches at
rpm.org, Altavista, Google (Linux section), Dejanews, nor Red Hat itself.
Too much info, perhaps, but be (to paraphrase) vewwy, vewwy careful with
RPM 4.0.
-Ken
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
> Okay,
>
> Maybe I'm missing something intuitively obvious here, but how does one upgrade
> rpm *with* rpm?
>
>
> $ rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> $ rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> $ rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
>
> Any clues? Why am I still running RH again? I really need to switch to
> debian at home!
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
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>
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>
>
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