Re: Building RPM 3.x RPMs

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Monday 02 July 2001 03:29 pm, you wrote:
>
> You do this if running rpm-4.0.2 on a Red Hat 6.2 box; otherwise
> dependencies from a Red Hat 7.x box will prevent packaging. Since you need
> to build on a 6.2 box anyways, you might just think about building with
> rpm-3.0.5 rather than using rpm-4.0.2, that's pretty easy to do. However,
> since you've asked, here's the hacks necessary to achieve backward
> compatible packaging from rpm-4.0.2:
>
Ahh... Ok. I'm already on a RH 7.1 box. I'll just tell the developer "sorry, 
can't do this w/o building another box," something I'm NOT willing to do.. :-)
Thanks...
	John