On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> 
> I believe an upgrade of www.iglu.org.il is in need. The reason is that the
> new RedHat packages belong to RPM version 4.0 and cannot be installed by
> RPM version 3.x which is present on RedHat 6.2. I tried to compile RPM 4.0
> from source but was not successful.

What about upgrading rpm to 3.05 ?

I remember reading something about that from linux-il. Never tried it...

Another possible solution: rebuild the rpm packages from srpms. The spec
file may need some editing, to remove some newly-introduced macros. I can
help a bit with such issues. 

> 
> At the moment, mod_perl is not running because it causes some error with
> Apache. We could encounter more problems in the future unless we upgrade.
> 
> Of course, upgrading require Physical access to the server. Since I am
> present in Haifa during the weekends, I can do it. Or Guy Keren can.
> 
> Anyway, do everybody agree with this position?

Also: is RH7 considered stable enough? There was a recent round of glibc
updates recently. But I don't follow redhat that closely.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
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