Re: Upgrade to RPM 4

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 03:43:17PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > Circa 2000-Aug-18 15:26:20 -0400 dixit John Aldrich:
> > 
> > : On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > : > Circa 2000-Aug-18 14:24:01 -0400 dixit John Aldrich:
> > : > 
> > : > : You should be able to roll back to rpm 3.0.5, which is backwards
> > : > : compatible with rpm3
> > : > 
> > : > In some ways.  In others, it's not at all.  Viz. recent threads here.
> > : > 
> > : Yeah, that may be. However, it's the best chance Patrick Bryan has of
> > : going back to a V3.x version of RPM. At least it's got the same rpm
> > : DB that RPM4 has, so there shouldn't be any problems there...
> > 
> > Huh?  To my knowledge, rpm-3.0.5 still uses db-1.8x-format databases.
> > The forwards compatibility consists mostly in being able to read actual
> > RPM packages created by rpm-4.x.  Or is something else missing from
> > /usr/doc/rpm-3.0.5/CHANGES?
> > 
> Hmm...I dunno. I thought RPM 3.0.5 would use / convert the database.
> At least that's what I got from reading this list. *I* may be totally
> wrong. *shrug*
> 	John
> 

rpm-3.0.5 uses the same db1-1.85 that rpm has always used.

rpm-4.0 has both db1-1.85 and db3-3.1.14 support. db1 support will be
eliminated as rapidly as possible, possibly in rpm-4.1, as support for
both db1 and db3 isn't exactly a useful feature in a package manager.

73 de Jeff

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