On 09/10/2013 09:43 PM, bishwajit goswami wrote: > Is it possible to achieve rpmdb compatibility across different versions > of rpm? > We use rpm for our packaging and plan to package with the new version of > rpm. This brings in a question of rpmdb compatibility with system > updates since rpmdb has had several changes. > Can I change the format of rpmdb between different rpm versions? The format of the rpmdb does not only depend on the rpm version but also on the bdb version rpm is built against. In general you should not need to care about the rpmdb compatibility when packaging software as rpm packages. Typically packages build with newer versions of RPM should also work with older rpm-4.x versions. There are a couple of new features that need to be turned off like SHA1 checksums and xz compression or must not be used like ~ in version or release. The release notes of the 4.x.0 versions should give you a good hint on what to avoid in their compatibility sections. See http://rpm.org/wiki/News . Florian _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
