At 09:18 PM 08/21/2001 -0400, Kevin Fonner wrote:
>I decided since I wanted to learn more about what was going on 
>undernieth the system that it would be fun to upgrade just the packets I 
>want to on corporate server.  Any ways I keep getting a wierd error 
>message from rpm command.
>
>"only packages with major numbers <=3 are supported by this version of rpm"
>
>what exactly does this mean and any ideas how to fix it?

Kevin,

  This means that corporate server is using rpm 3.x and that you've chosen
a package that was built for rpm 4.x (or later).

The only way to get around it (maybe) is to rebuild from srpm, which may
involve fiddling with the .spec file or upgrade to rpm 4.x, which will
cause more problems than it is worth.

You'd be better off using the update packages under 1.0.1 (in the updates
directory), or using packages built for 7.x.

Michael

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