you did not quite get my question but anyway the link was very useful.
the problem is that rawhide rpms are RPM4 while redhat and all the other
major distribution come with variations of RPM3. therefore, you cannot
install RPMs from rawhide unless you have RPM4 or RPM3.0.5(which is
forward compatible with 4)
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 at 18:01, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote:
> >i am a pretty cutting edge dude and i love to compile my own stuff from
> >source. however, to save myself from the agony of installing and
> >uninstalling i use rpms. i get my fresh rpms from rawhide.(they have
> >newer rpms all the time).
>
> Rawhide will get you newer RPMs as far as RedHat is concerned. I normally
> like Rawhide RPMs, too. However some RPMs come out "later" direct from
> their sources (like say, the Courier IMAP server), or from other
> packagers.
>
> >i cam across rpm4. the php4 rpm i downloaded from rawhide will not
> >install because my rpm is still 3.0.4. but, i am hesitant to upgrade my
> >rpm with the rawhide rpms because i have not seen redhat or mandrak
> >upgrade their rpm spec??
>
> PHP in a way is an example of something that you can cool RPMs of from
> some other packager. Arvin Troels in his website in
> <http://fsr.ku.dk/people/troels/rpms/php/> has RPMs pre-built as well as
> SRPMs available. His pre-built RPMs are cool in that I got my i686
> optimized CFLAGS from him, so I normally don't recompile his RPMs anymore.
> Check it out. I'm using PHP4 in my development box, and am using the
> latest release of Horde (1.2.0) and IMP (2.2.0). Note that his PostgreSQL
> RPMs are only for the 6.x release. He has a link viewable by checking out
> the Description link for 7.x PostgreSQL RPMs and they work fine. :-)
>
> --> Jijo :-)
>
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