How to update from rpm 4.4 to rpm 5.0

[JD]

Hi Kevin,
Please look at my reply to Kevin Fenzi re; where I got these RPMS:
in short, from
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/dries.studentenweb.org/apt/fedora.risky/fc7/x86_64/RPMS.dries/
That will answer your questions :)

Yeah, I know it's "risky" business, updating from such repos.
But as I indicated to my reply to Kevin Fenzi, I a trying to solve
an rpmbuild problem.

-JD

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> JD wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> My current system has
>>
>> rpm-4.4.2.2-2
>> rpm-libs-4.4.2.2-2
>> rpm-python-4.4.2.2-2
>>
>> I want to update to
>>
>> rpm-perl-5.0-0.2.0
>> rpm-libs-5.0-0.2.0
>> rpm-build-5.0-0.2.0
>> rpm-5.0-0.2.0
>> rpm-python-5.0-0.2.0
>> The 5.0 builds are made for my version of fedora.
>>
>> How can I update to the new 5.0 stuff safely, so that
>> I am not left without an rpm tool.
>> The dependencies are so many, I am not sure how I can
>> update and not break the dependents.
>>
>
> 1)  I'm not sure where this RPM 5.0 comes from.  I've just been to 
> www.rpm.org, and the only versions available there are:  4.4.2, 
> 4.5.90, and 4.6.0 rc versions.  Since 4.6.0 rc3 is available in 
> rawhide and FC10
> where does version 5.0 come from?
>
> 2)  Where did you get the builds for you version of fedora.  What *is* 
> your version of fedora?
>
> 3)  What are the dependencies?  If it was built for *your* version of 
> fedora, there should be no dependency issues that are not resolvable 
> through proper invocation of your favorite package manager (rpm, yum, 
> packegkit, etc).  Sounds more like the version you have (where it did 
> come from) is *not* for you version of fedora.  If that is the case, 
> and you don't know how to handle the dependencies, I'd strongly 
> recommend that you refrain from upgrading to it.
>
> 4)  If you *do* attempt the upgrade and its breaks rpm for you, you'll 
> have to rely on your rescue media to properly rescue your system and 
> re-install a working rpm on it.
>
> Personally, I enjoy breaking my system now and again (not that I do it 
> on purpose), as I learn so much from fixing it (usually by hand, but 
> in the extreme case by a premature update to rawhide, and by 
> premature, I mean before I might have chosen to upgrade to rawhide on 
> my own, which is almost never B^)  But I did rescue a broken FC3 
> system from a failed FC4 upgrade by upgrading to FC5 about 1 month 
> before its release.
>