Re: Building RPM 3.x RPMs

[John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>]

On Monday 02 July 2001 03:29 pm, you wrote:
> Circa 2001-Jul-02 14:55:52 -0400 dixit John Aldrich:
>: Is there any way to build an RPM that's compatible with RedHat 6.x
>: version of RPM using RPM 4.x? The reason I ask is that I package a
>: couple small apps and one of the developers has asked if there is
>: any way I can create an RPM that's compatible with RPM 3.x.
>
> The single best way to do that is to build the RPM package on an actual
> Red Hat Linux 6.2 system using rpm-3.0.5 or rpm-3.0.6.
>
> It's also possible to build in a chroot-ed area that has a complete Red
> Hat Linux 6.2 system installed, along with rpm-3.0.5 or 3.0.6.
>
> It's possible to build rpm-3.0.x-compatible packages (where x <= 6) using
> rpm-4.0.x with '--nodirtokens', but you must remember that building on
> anything but a Red Hat Linux 6.2 system is likely to produce packages
> that are not suitable for a RHL-6.2 target system.
>
Yeah. I'll tell the developer he's out of luck. There are still the SRC.RPM 
files that can be recompiled for use on RH 6.x :-)
	thanks...	
	John