IIRC
The Redhat solution was: You could upgrade to 4.02 using a recent 3.x
THEN, you can upgrade from 4.02 to 4.03 (you just couldn't get from 3.x
to 4.03 directly). I might be wrong on that one though.
It's a two step process. That's the best I can remember of that one.
The other solution:
rpm -e rpm
Get the rpm 4.x tar file, and install it (in /usr/local/...).
THEN, you can use that rpm to re-install the rpm 4.x rpm, and uninstall
the tar file version. (I KNOW that one works. It's painful, but how
much pain you'll bear is in direct relation to how bad you want rpm v4
Ric
Christian Rost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as did RedHat before, the Mandrake guys introduced RPM 4.x with LM 8.0.
> Unfortunately, the rpm 4.x binary they're shipping with LM 8.0 can not be
> installed with rpm 3.x. I didn't find yet a smooth way to upgrade to rpm 4.x.
> Even the src.rpm 4.x files didn't help, because you need rpm 4.x to unpack them
> - seems to be pretty much a chicken-egg problem. RedHat offered an rpm 3.x with
> the capability to handle rpm 4.0 packages. Is there something similar in the LM
> world?
> Any comments are apreciated.
>
> Christian
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