No, Red Hat 7.2 came with rpm-4.0.3 (I just checked), so it should work.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Rob van der Heij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: More on Fedora... On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 22:37, Post, Mark K wrote: > Alex, > > Why cross-compilers (other than for speed)? Why not start with Red Hat 7.2, > and just rebuild the Fedora SRPMS? (or RHEL3, if you have it.) There's s390 packages of Fedora available already at the mirrors. But the startup kernel and the initrd with the install system seems not to be there. I'm not sure, but I thought the Red Hat 7.2 was RPM3 based, so you cannot use that to install the RPM4 packages from Fedora. I was thinking to use RPM on my Fedora IA32 system to make the root filesystem (with --root) and then use tar to put it on disk. But I have not figured out what is missing there. Rob
