For those who didn't hear yet; there is an RPM5. (http://rpm5.org)
It seems as though a popular packager has bumped-up the RPM version on
recently built packages to use features only available in RPM-5.
Meanwhile, users need the latest version of their software. The last version
from un-named packager worked flawless.
error: Failed dependencies:
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 is needed by $Package
A not so insignificant installed base of RedHat servers has rpm-4.4.2.3 as
the latest rpm release available from the vendor. In order to install rpm5
files w/ newer hash, I used: rpm --nodeps --nomd5. -- however by removing the
deps check I have to install them by hand.
Any work-arounds / idea to use these with YUM?
Can I override the hash on the binary rpm for all packages? Since yum is
python it should be hard to find-out. That is all I require, all the right
repo files exist.
If worse comes to worse, I can use a simple install script to extract dep
lists and do each one at a time.
I checked RHN; no RPM-5 from official vendor channel yet. So, if people
package their release on a system with rpm version 5, which defaults to
dependency rpmlib(FileDigests) using a stronger SHA hash versus the older MD5
hash; these rpm packages will NOT work by default, even on recent RHEL5 servers.
This means, between different distributions, there now are rpm packages
that are incompatible for the OS release/arch which they were targeted for.
All the repo files are there and many of the packages install fine, except a
few rpms.
While not a new problem, this was the first time, I ran into this
particular issue with an application that is suppose to install on RHEL5.
The packager did a decent job, except they are not being installed on
Fedora or a server that got updated to the new non-redhat rpm5 tools.
It's too bad the packager didn't build them with the following lines in
SPEC file when targeting rhel5 releases:
÷global _binary_filedesc_algorithm 1
÷global _source_filedesc_algorithm 1
As a result: it will take me longer to install the same packages under the
"officially supported" distro, than the unsupported Fedora. The users are
exactly where RedHat left them: at the "stable" (lagged-by-design) packages.
- Allan Fields
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