I believe Mandrake 7.1 uses rpm 3.04, and Mandrake 7.2 uses rpm 4.
Upgrading tends to be very difficult as far as destabalizing the system.
But rpm 3.05 might work. Also, compiling from source is an option.
-Paul R
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KompuKit
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:25 AM
To: Linux-Mandrake
Subject: [newbie] [Fwd: need mandrake RPMs]
Below is an email I got in reply to a question...
Is mandrake...version 4 or 3 of RPMs????????
can someone tell me
Andrew Meredith wrote:
>
> KompuKit wrote:
> >
> > Hi...could you perhaps...make rpms for the Mandrake 7.2
> > OS? it would be "version.mdk.i586.rpm"
> >
> > of your DVD sets
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Have you tried to use the posted ones? The whole point of rpm is that it
> is platform independant, so it matters not whether it is Mandrake, Suse,
> Red Hat or whatever. The only difference I can see is that these are
> version 4 rpms and I suspect that Mandrake uses version 3 still. If this
> is the case, then you might like to upgrade to version 4 of the rpm
> package. See http://www.anvil.org/oms/rpm4/ for more details.
>
> Oh and the filename used is not really relevant, it is a naming
> convention. It goes:
>
> <package>-<app version>-<package release>.<architecture>.rpm
>
> Sorry if this is a bit .. erm .. brief and to the point, but I am about
> to step out of the door and I wanted to get you a response before I
> left.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Andrew Meredith
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