OK so I gave up on Mandrake Corporate Server and went with Mandrake 8 as 
my starting platform.  However MDK come with RPM 4.0 and to put together 
the source rpms it says I need 4.0.2.  I noticed 4.0.3 is in cooker but 
when I try to upgrade just rpm through software manager it wants to 
upgrade half my damn system!  Why do I need to upgrade alsa libs and 
another 20 or so irrelevant things to put a newer version of rpm on my 
computer?  Is their an solution to this?



Michael D. Viron wrote:

>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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>Michael Viron
>Registered Linux User #81978
>Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
>Web Spinners, University of West Florida
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