Ben,
If you're running a 7.2 system I would really "strongly" advise against
using any other version of RPM other then version 3. the one that you have
on there already. you REALLY don't want the headaches of trying to convert
from RPM version 3.x.x to version 4. There's an old saying my grandfather
used to say to me when I was very small. "If it ain't broke boy...don't
fix it!"
Mandrake 8.0 uses version 4 of RPM if I've read the postings on the list
here, but 7.2 does not and doesn't want anything to do with it.
Mark
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I recently heard that Red Hat has produced a special RPM package that will
> allow Red Hat 6 users (who use rpm version 3 to upgrade packages that are
> built with rpm version 4). If so, does anyone know where I can find this
> information, and, more importantly, what is the opinion of Mandrake experts
> on whether such an rpm "upgrade" would work in Mandrake 7.2?
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Benjamin
>
