On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Stephen Mills wrote:
> I found it quite frustrating in Redhat's approach in upgrading RPM, as
> another person pointed out, probably to prompt more sales.
Guys, please do not say things like that without first asking for the
reason behind this.
The reason is as follows:
Rpm v4 uses the latest database mechanism (db-3.???) this makes it
incompatible with prior versions. If you (like I did) recompile rpm v4
from scratch you will find that it asks for the Berkeley db-3.??? database
stuff. Once you jump through the hoops you get an rpm binary that
upgrades your old db-2.??? files. But then again this is where the fun
starts: All the new RH rpms cause problems with the old stuff because
they have made some major changes in setups, etc which I find really
painful. I am still looking forward to all this fun when TL goes to
rpm-4.0...
tom.
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