[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: Force rpm upgrade?

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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:45:09PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:09, Jarod C.Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > I have one, but I'm still in favor of forcing everyone to rpm 4.2. I 
> > upgraded to rpm 4.2 (from Axel's site) on a RHL7.3 box here, which 
> > forced me to remove ucd-snmp and ethereal, because ucd-snmp has a dep 
> > on librpm404, and ethereal depends on ucd-snmp. To get around this, 
> > Axel created a librpm404-compat package, which after I installed, I was 
> > able to reinstall ucd-snmp and ethereal, so there are ways around it, 
> > and that's the only problem I've had with upgrading a Red Hat Linux 7.3 
> > system to rpm 4.2.
> 
> jbj's official rpm.org upgrade has compat packages for 404 too.  I
> suspect that is where Axel got it from.

There are no compat packages for 7x at rpm.org.

I am providing 4.0.5 compatibility packages for RH73 solely as a quick
fix for satisfying ucd-snmp's dependencies. I think that is the only
RH73 package depending on rpm, so I will simply rebuild it against rpm
4.2. and drop the compatibility libs.
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