On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 01:26, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Sunday 21 January 2001 07:47 am, David wrote:
> > I downloaded the mandrake kernel4.0 but when i tried to install it i
> > got "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this
> > version of RPM" as an error... have i downloaded the wrong version or
> > is something else wrong ??
>
> What version of rpm? rpm -qa | grep -i rpm
> current is rpm-3.0.5-27mdk, you have an older version ?
>
> What kernel rpm and where did you get it from?
This error only appears if the RPM you are trying to install has been made
with RPM 4 (as used in Red Hat 7 and Cooker), which is incompatible with the
version of RPM used in Mandrake 7.2 (RPM 3). In short, don't use RPMs that
give this error.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
