Hi Charles,
Try getting the rpm 3.0.5. It solved all of my "major numbers <= 3" problems
but YMMV. I have also heard that this can install rpm 4 but I can not
confirm this. You may want to try. I got the 3.0.5 from www.rpmfind.net
Have fun,
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Friday, August 04, 2000, 11:01:04 PM, you wrote:
CG> on RH6.2, rpm 3.04, I would like to upgrade to a 2.2.16-12 kernel (rpm)
CG> from rawhide because it has the pptp masquerading patches already built
CG> in!
CG> However, I get an error from rpm when trying to install it.
CG> [root@bitsy /tmp]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.2.16-12.i386.rpm
CG> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
CG> error: kernel-2.2.16-12.i386.rpm cannot be installed
CG> ok, so I downloaded rpm 4.0, but get the same error trying to upgrade it!
CG> [root@bitsy /tmp]# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0-0.56.i386.rpm
CG> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
CG> error: rpm-4.0-0.56.i386.rpm cannot be installed
CG> So how do I upgrade to rpm 4?
CG> I realize I can patch my 2.2.16-3 kernel, but would like to try this way
CG> :)
CG> thanks
CG> charles
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