On Sunday 04 February 2001 15:18, Rupert Heesom opined:
> I'm running RH6.2, and RPM 3.0.5. I'm trying to upgrade the RPM
> database to RPM 4 so that I can handle the new RH7 RPMs. Supposedly an
> upgrade to RPM 4 is possible without upgrading the entire distro to RH7.
>
> I downloaded the RPMs for RPM 4: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm, and the devel rpm.
>
> When I tried to install these, I got dependancy issues: glibc 2.2, "db1
> 1.85" seemed to be the main extra modules needed.
>
> Now when I'm trying to install these modules, I have a whole lot more
> dependancy issues.....
>
> I'm wondering whether in fact I _can_ upgrade my RPM database without
> upgrading 1/2 my system?
This has been in discussion ad naseum over the last few weeks. Got to the
moongroup mailing list archives and search for it. It should reveal in the
neighborhood of 1000 hits (a minor exaggeration).
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