Re: RPM chicken or egg problem

["Jean-Raymond.Chauviere" <Jean-Raymond Chauviere cetelem fr>]

I agree with you, --force is reserved to ultimate solution.
Without --force what is your solution to solve this problem ?
JRC
Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
>   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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Nur der kleine Geist hält Ordnung, das Genie beherrscht das Chaos.
Seuls les petits esprits aiment l'ordre, le génie maitrîse le chaos.
(anonyme)