On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 11:01:49PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> How is one supposed to upgrade to packages built with rpm-4.0 using
> rpm-3.x?, especially rpm-4.0. Any binaries of v 4.0 available somewhere?

I faced the very same problem this morning (I was trying to get the
latest openjade SRPM).

> > rpm -qp /mnt/sdc3/rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> query of /mnt/sdc3/rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm failed
> Same problem with rpm-3.1-x.

I was dumb enough to try also rpm-4*.src.rpm and rpm-3.1*.src.rpm. ;))

I suppose one can get rpm from the CVS repository, build it and then
install the RawHide RPMs.

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