Re: RPM upgrade

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc linuxweasel com>]

On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 19:10, Hatem AbouHassan wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "José Manuel Sلnchez Lَpez" <gwyllor@yahoo.es>
> To: "RPM Mailing List" <rpm-list@redhat.com>
> 
> > I have RPM 3.0.4 installed and running. When I try to upgrade my RPM
> version
> > (i.e.: rpm -Uvh rpm-4.0.2-7x.i386.rpm) I have this message
> >
> > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> >
> > I read that this is because the package I am trying to install has a
> diferent
> > format, my question is how can I install a new rpm which hold that new
> format?

You'll want to first upgrade to rpm 3.0.5 (or 3.0.6), then run 'rpm
--rebuilddb', then upgrade to RPM 4.0.2.  
	Greg

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