Re: RPM chicken or egg problem

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:46:23PM +0000, Karl Gutenberg wrote:
> 
> Hey hey,
> 
> anybody have an idea about this one! Made me laugh......
> 
> florella:~ # rpm -i rpm-4.0-0.66.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0-0.66.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> 
> Chicken or egg, i need RPM4 to install RPM4?! :-)
> 
> Seems like I need the source, Karl

  No, install first the rpm-3.05 or 3.06 [1], it can read RPM4 packages
while keeping the same format for the database.
  Important note: run rpm --rebuilddb just after upgrading to rpm4,
the database format changed and this is aboslutely needed if you
don't want to screw your rpm database (who does ?) !

    enjoy !

Daniel

[1] ftp://rpm.org/pub/ 
    or any good mirror...
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