Re: an intersting rpm update problem

[Jeff Lane <jlane redhat com>]

If you wnat to install the 2.2.17 packages, you need to update rpm from v3
to 3.5 or 4.x instead.  then you need to run rpm --rebuilddb to rebuild
the rpm database.

cheers

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, arthur m coucouvitis wrote:

>
>   i've pared down the RH6.2 install to 160+ packages.
>   when i try:
>
> % rpm -Uvh kernel-smp-2.2.17-14.i686.rpm
>
>   rpm issues the following complaint:
>
>      rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1 is needed
> by kernel-2.2.17-14
>
>   when i have a full RH6.2 (custom/everything) install
>   i can install the kernel-smp rpm w/o any trouble
>
>   if i search the requires i see several packages with
> the
>   VersionedDependency requirement.
>   but a 'provides' search doesn't show any package ?
>   it's gotta be rpm that supplies this, but i can't
> figure out how !
>
>   can anyone help me ?
>   thanks,
>

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