The RPMS you got are probably for Redhat 7
You need to make sure they are going to work with redhat 6.
The redhat updates section in mirror.aarnet.edu.au should make it clear
enough
dave
> -----Original Message-----
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> Stephen Mills
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 December 2000 11:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] RPM Fun
>
>
> Hi,
> If anyone has any idea, feel free to give me a yell.
>
> Redhat 6.1, sendmail has been cleanly removed, want to install new
> version. I did a search on the web, with no clues....yes the rpm's
> were downloaded in bin mode.
>
> [root@davros nighty]# rpm --rebuild sendmail-8.11.0-8.src.rpm
> Installing sendmail-8.11.0-8.src.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> RPM
>
> [root@davros nighty]# file sendmail-8.11.0-8.src.rpm
> sendmail-8.11.0-8.src.rpm: RPM v4 src i386 sendmail-8.11.0-8
>
> [root@davros nighty]# rpm --version
> RPM version 3.0.3
>
> [root@davros nighty]# rpm -U rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of
> RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed
>
> --Stephen
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