On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:20:00 +1000, Stephen Mills said:
> 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
At this point I have two comments.
The fix -iirc- is to install rpm v3.0.5 or later which is compatable with
rpm's v4.
rpm -Uvh rpm-{version}.rpm
The other is that making a totally incompatible major change to
something like RPM is a,IMO, Micro$oftian thing to do. Ho hum.
-Thom
>
> --Stephen
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