Upgrade to RH7.1 did not upgrade rpm

[Divya OBEROI <oberoi cnrs-orleans fr>]

Hello, 

	I think, I posted it to the wrong address earlier, here it is once
again....

	I am new to this list and this is my first posting to it. I do not
consider myself to be new to Linux, have been using it for the past 6
years but mostly as a user who did not need to fiddle much with system
configuration and installation etc.

	About a month ago I upgraded to RH7.1 from RH6.0. I did an upgrade
of the installation and chose the standard Workstation configuration. The
earlier RH6.0 was a custom installation where I had chosen the packages to
be installed individually. My understanding was that during the install
process, RH7.1 anyway makes a list of all installed packages and would
upgrade all the ones installed, even if I did not specify them
individually.  Yesterday, I was surprised to find that I was still running
the rpm version 3.0-6.0 (which is in capable of supporting major numbers
<= 3) while the one which comes bundled with RH7.1 is version 4.0.2-8.
Some of the other software which I use, like gcc, gdb, netscape, pine, gv,
xdvi etc. have the been upgraded to the versions being distributed along
with RH7.1. Is this normal?

	I would like to upgrade to the latest rpm version, and the
standard "rpm -Uvh rmp-4.0.2-8.i386.rpm" does not work, of course. How can
I achieve this upgrade.

thanks and regards
Divya

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