On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Adi Stav wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:10:19PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote:
> > I am now working on a software package from SourceForge.
> > In order to compile the most recent CVS version, I need first to run
> > autoconf on it.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the current version requires autoconf 2.13, and I have
> > version 2.12 (my stable Linux system is relatively old, and based upon
> > RedHat 5.1; and I don't like the idea of destabilizing it by careless
> > upgrades).
> >
> > No problems, look for the appropriate RPM in a recent RedHat version.
> > RedHat 7.2 has autoconf 2.13 RPM.
>
> IIRC RPM 3.5 is the intermediate version that supports both RPM 3
> and 4 formats.

rpm 3.0.5

But you also have the differences between rpm 2.5 and rpm 3.

> But I doubt it'd help you because I'd expect a RH7.2
> RPM to come with all sorts of other RH7.x dependencies as well, such
> as glibc 2.2 and so forth.

Hence the suggestion to rebuild the source RPM.

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