Re: RPM chicken or egg problem

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

  No no no ... Do NOT suggest using --force when you don't precisely
understand the issue, this is bad practice, if there is a conflict
there is a reason. Unless you understand why DO NOT BYPASS IT.
  In this case, the metadata information of RPM version 4 are not
understandable by RPM v<3.05 ... forcing it won't make it understand
them (well I doubt it).
  Again suggesting in a wide scope mailing list to use --force when
you don't understand what the issue is is very unwise ...

Daniel

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:28:03AM +0200, Jean-Raymond.Chauviere wrote:
> --force may help
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
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