Re: rpm version update problem

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 02:22:20PM -0200, andre wrote:
> I'm trying to update my rpm from version 4.0-7x to 4.0.1 or 4.0.2, but
> when I try to update my version (ex: rpm -U rpm.4.0.1.rpm ) it allwais
> stops with the error message : failed dependencies rpm = 4.0 is needed
> by blah blah....but my rpm is 4.0!! what else it needs to run?? I have
> already trieed almost all the versions available at rpm.org, but none
> worked.....Do we have do be Ph.D at MIT to do this????

Why aren't you upgrading to rpm-4.0.3-7x?

What's in /var/lib/rpm? If you're still using db1 (i.e. you have
/var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm), then you should try to convert before
upgrading, as the upgrade will be simpler.

AFAICG (you haven't specified "blah blah" :-( there are other packages
that depend on rpm, such as gnorpm, kpackage, rpmfind, etc. Yes you
will need to upgrade those packages as well. The 7.2 versions will
"work", but you will need to upgrade all the other packages needed
by the packages that link to rpmlib as well, can't be helped.

Your easiest upgrade pathway IMHO is gonna be

	1) Deinstall gnorpm, kpackage, and whatever else links
	to rpmlib using rpm --erase.

	2) Upgrade rpm. You will need the glibc errata.

	3) Reinstall the packages from Red Hat 7.2 removed in 1). Be prepared,
	there will be other packages that will need to be upgraded as well.

> 
> Thanks for any help, and sorry for the anger...

Thanks for the apology :-)

73 de Jeff

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