On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 at 8:33am (-0500), Vincent Cojot wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:00:26PM +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote: > > > The problem isn't with upgrading the machines to use rpm4 - we acutally do > > > that. The problem is that the version of rpm used by the redhat installer > > > (anaconda?) itself doens't properly understand packages built with rpmv4. > > [...] > > > > I knew I'd be overlooking something - thanks for the explanation! So, to > > handle this situation correctly, RH would have needed to provide an update > > for the installer as well? > > > > Cheerio, > > > > Thomas > > Hello Martthew and Thomas, > > In fact, I tried upgrading the Rh6.2 "instimage" directory from > rpm3 to rpm4 with correct libraries but it didn't seem to work.. I suspect > this is because rpm-python from "instimage" was built with rpm3 and > upgrading the "rpm" command under "instimage" doesn't help... The > behaviour we got when we applied the first rpm4 package to our kickstart > installs (I believe it was ucd-snmpd*) was that the package would be > present in the rpm-db but no files (or several missing files) were to be > found on the actual filesystem.. I may not have investigated that issue cd> enough but it should be feasible - I think - to upgrade an rpm3-based > instimage from rh6.2 to an rpm4 tree..
Seems you've been down a fairly similar road to me on this one. I didn't make much more progress than you. It seems doable but it didn't seem worth me learning python to make it happen. :) M. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd Australia's #1 Internet Web Hosting Company Level 1, 96 Lytton Road. Network Operations - Systems Engineer PO Box 4169, East Brisbane. phone: +61 7 3249 2500 Queensland, Australia. pgp key id: 0x900E515F _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
