Re: why can red hat 7 packages be installed on red hat 6.2?

["identity" <id vo lu>]

no it's the version difference of the rpm program. Redhat 7 uses rpm 4 which
is incompatible with redhat 6.2's version 3.4

----- Original Message -----
From: <mattdm@mattdm.org>
To: <rpm-list@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 5:56 PM
Subject: why can red hat 7 packages be installed on red hat 6.2?


> Packages built with RH 7 are often incompatible with RH 6.2. Yet, I've run
> into cases where RPM lets one install these packages anyway with no
> complaint -- until they fail to work. What's going on here? Why isn't
there
> some sort of dependency which prevents this?
>
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