On Sunday, July 2, 2006 7:39am, AAW wrote: > I had no trouble installing 2.0.3 on Mandriva 2006.0 using the > packages from OOo_2.0.3_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz. However, the same > rpms do not install on cooker (Mandriva's development branch). The > attempt fails due to missing dependencies, because rpm doesn't > recognize the provides. rpm -qpl <package.rpm> reports that the > packages contain no files. Installing with --nodeps enters the > packages into the rpm database, but no files are actually installed. > > I asked about this on the cooker mailing list. According to > Mandriva's rpm maintainer, the problem is that the OO packages were > created with rpm version 3.0.6 and cooker uses the latest release > (4.4.6) which has dropped backward compatibility with version 3. > > This isn't a Mandriva peculiarity; the change was made upstream. That > means this problem will show up with more distros as they adopt the > new version of rpm.
Just to resolve this topic (in the interests of future googlers). Mandriva has patched rpm to add back rpm v3 support. Apparently, the Linux Standard Base mandates v3 support, so any distro that wants to be LSB compliant will have to do the same. Arn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
