I'm trying to upgrade rpm 4.1 that comes standard with red hat 8.0 to rpm 4.2.
rpm 4.1 has some bugs that don't allow relocation and don't set certain scripting parameters like RPM_INSTALL_PREFIX. It is also rumored that rpm 4.1 will cause problems with the rawhide glibc-2.3.1-XX (which is giving strange error msgs and seems to be preventing informix from loading) Is there a sane way to do this upgrade? One possible answer is just to go back to 7.3. 8.0 seems not ready from prime time. thanks, Bill some output: blwskw:/usr/rpms/raw# rpm -Uvh rpm-4.2-0.68.i386.rpm warning: rpm-4.2-0.68.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a error: Failed dependencies: popt = 1.8 is needed by rpm-4.2-0.68 librpm-4.1.so is needed by (installed) rpm-build-4.1-1.06 librpm-4.1.so is needed by (installed) net-snmp-5.0.1-6 librpm-4.1.so is needed by (installed) rpm-python-4.1-1.06 librpmbuild-4.1.so is needed by (installed) rpm-build-4.1-1.06 librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by (installed) rpm-build-4.1-1.06 librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by (installed) net-snmp-5.0.1-6 librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by (installed) rpm-python-4.1-1.06 librpmio-4.1.so is needed by (installed) rpm-build-4.1-1.06 librpmio-4.1.so is needed by (installed) net-snmp-5.0.1-6 librpmio-4.1.so is needed by (installed) rpm-python-4.1-1.06 rpm = 4.1 is needed by (installed) rpm-build-4.1-1.06 rpm = 4.1 is needed by (installed) rpm-python-4.1-1.06 blwskw:/usr/rpms/raw# popt -Uvh popt-1.8-0.68.i386.rpm -bash: popt: command not found blwskw:/usr/rpms/raw# rpm -Uvh popt-1.8-0.68.i386.rpm warning: popt-1.8-0.68.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a error: Failed dependencies: popt = 1.7 is needed by (installed) rpm-4.1-1.06 [[[blwskw:/usr/rpms/raw# /lib/libc.so.6 Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. Needs to be fixed. GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.1, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Compiled by GNU CC version 3.2.1 20021207 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2.1-2). Compiled on a Linux 2.4.20-0.pp.6 system on 2003-01-07. Available extensions: GNU libio by Per Bothner crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy BIND-8.2.3-T5B libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk Thread-local storage support included. Report bugs using the `glibcbug' script to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.]]]