On Sat, Jan 27, John Ross Hunt wrote:
Will 7.1 come with RPM 4.x?
No, it will not. RPM 4.x is not really useable and stable if you install a lot of packages. The LDPS specification also uses RPM v3 as package format.
But RPM 3.0.6 (which we use) and RPM 3.0.5 (which is in the unsorted directory of CD1 from SuSE Linux 7.0) can read and install RPM v4 packages.
Thorsten
Cool! Is the RPM database compatible between 3.0.4 & 3.0.5? In other words, if 3.0.5 doesn't work for me can I downgrade without problems? Thanks, -- John Ross Hunt bigboote@mediaone.net <mailto:bigboote@mediaone.net>
On Sat, Jan 27, John Ross Hunt wrote:
Cool! Is the RPM database compatible between 3.0.4 & 3.0.5? In other words, if 3.0.5 doesn't work for me can I downgrade without problems?
Why shouldn't 3.0.5 work for you ? It is only 3.0.4 + read support for RPM v4 packages. 3.0.x has no changes to the database backend as far as I know. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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