On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:49:04PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > How is one supposed to upgrade to packages built with rpm-4.0 using
> > rpm-3.x?, especially rpm-4.0. Any binaries of v 4.0 available somewhere?
> <arch>/RedHat/instimage/usr/bin/rpm is there, at least.

[root@ciccillo yax]# ncftpget -F  ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/rawhide/i386/
RedHat/instimage/usr/bin/rpm
rpm:                                                1.19 MB   89.84 kB/s
[root@ciccillo yax]# chmod 755 rpm
[root@ciccillo yax]# ./rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm 
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm cannot be installed
[root@ciccillo yax]# ./rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-0.33.src.rpm  
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-0.33.src.rpm cannot be installed
[root@ciccillo yax]# ./rpm --version
RPM version 3.1

Trying to rebuild rpm-4 straight from the CVS repository:

[root@ciccillo rpm]# ./autogen.sh 
You need to install:
        libtool-1.3.5
        autoconf-2.13
        automake-1.4

Autoconf and automake are OK, while libtool is v1.3.4 (same as RawHide).

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