On Saturday 24 August 2002 11:16 am, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: > When I fooled with new versions of upstream > sources, I didn't do anything about rpm. > > However, we're using rpm 3.0.6, which is > a very old version, and matching it with > db3 3.2.9. > > The current upstream rpm is 4.0.4, and > the current upstream db is 4.0.14. > I think rpm needs db3, however, and most > distros seem to be shipping the last > db3 release, 3.3.11... but I think they > statically link a db3 anyway. > > I think rpm 4.x requires libpopt also. > > > Is there anything we should do here? > > Mats
I grabbed the version of rpm that fits the LSB requirements. rpm 4 does not -- it does too much and would allow packages in beyond the LSB requirements. There is no reason to change the rpm we have, move along (-:
