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On 2/22/21 1:47 PM, L.A. Walsh wrote:
On 2021/02/21 13:41, Axel Braun wrote:
I feel here's the gap: Depending on how 'individual' your system is your rpm installs on your machine, but on no other. Having a clean and reproduceable build environment is a *big* advantage in OBS....
--- If someone has a pre-4.15 rpm, then they can't upgrade to suse's current packages. They also cannot build or install an rpm>=4.15, so they can't get to the point of being able to use packages built on OBS.
This is simply not true otherwise tumbleweed users wouldn't have been able to upgrade similarly Leap users wouldn't be able to migrate to tumbleweed (which they can) as Leap still has 4.14 which first came around early 2018.
The gap isn't about me building rpm's on my machine for someone else's machine, but is about me building rpm's for my machine. The problem is that I can't build+install the current rpm to install on my system.
Unfortunately if you don't have rpm 4.14 or later on your machine its no longer in a state we support and you really only have two options, 1. use the upgrade function on the installation media, 2. The following repo [1] contains multiple rpm packages, the highest version one will be capable of installing rpm 4.14.1 from Leap 15.0 [2] otherwise upgrades wouldn't have been possible. From there you can update to the latest rpm provided in Leap 15.2 and then onto rpm 4.16.0 which is now the version in tumbleweed. From there you can reupdate everything or rebuild rpm from source or whatever you would like. If you are unwilling to try those things there isn't really anything we can do to further help you with your issues. 1. http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/update/leap/42.3/oss/x86_64/ 2. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.0/repo/oss/x86_64/rpm-4.14... -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B