JD wrote: > How can I update to the new 5.0 stuff safely, so that > I am not left without an rpm tool. Don't. "RPM 5.0" comes from a completely different project than the RPM shipped by Fedora. They have the name and history in common, but the codebases are diverging rapidly. The RPM in Fedora comes from http://rpm.org/ . The latest version there is 4.6.0-rc3. Releases with 4.4.[3-9], 4.5 or 5.x version numbers come from http://rpm5.org/ and are not fully compatible with Fedora. The lower version numbers of the rpm.org releases do not mean they're older, the projects just use different version numbers in order not to conflict (because both refused to change the name, as each project sees itself as the legitimate RPM project). In addition, upgrading RPM to a new major version is a bad idea even if you use the rpm.org releases. The best way to get a newer RPM is to upgrade to a newer version of Fedora. Fedora 10 ships with 4.6.0-rc1 and has 4.6.0-rc3 available as an update. On older Fedora releases, you should stay with the stable 4.4.2.x bugfix releases. Fedora 9 has 4.4.2.3, the latest 4.4.2.x release. If you're still running Fedora 8 or older, upgrade NOW, Fedora 8 is no longer supported. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
