You've got your backwards and forwards mixed up. In this instance, it means that a rpm 4.7 should be able to install an rpm made with 4.6. Not that rpm 4.6 should be able to install an rpm made with 4.7
On 7 Jan 2010, at 16:42, Matt Causey wrote: > > > On Jan 7, 2010, at 2:32, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:17:47 -0800 >> Matt Causey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> FYI - Fedora 12 uses rpm v4.7. If you create rpms on Fedora 12, they >>> won't be compatible with Moblin2.1...I discovered today. >>> >>> Prolly not news to you guys, but thought I'd throw it out there...I >>> was pretty surprised to find such a crippling change in such a core >>> component. >> >> rpm works for backward compatibility - not forward. >> > I created an rpm using rpmbuild on rpm version 4.7. It fails to install on > Moblin 2.1 which uses rpm 4.6. The error cited by rpm relates to the xz > compression format which was introduced in 4.7. I'm pretty sure that is not > backwards compatible. > >> You normally build a totally generic rpm (eg to LSB) with rpm 3 >> > If that's the case, and it's the recommendation for developing packages for > Moblin, then that version of rpm tools should be packaged with the build > toolchain distributed for Moblin development. Thoughts? > > -- > Matt > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists -- Glen Gray <[email protected]> Digital Depot, Thomas Street Software Engineering Manager Dublin 8, Ireland Lincor Solutions Ltd. Ph: +353 (0) 1 4893682 _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
