Bug 12314

Summary: RPM 3 does not upgrade to RPM 4
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: patola
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description patola 2000-06-16 06:39:36 UTC 
It will be clearer if I show the command lines:

[patola@sheilamello rpm]$ ls -la
total 5141
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jun 16 02:30 .
drwxrwxrwx  14 root     root         2048 Jun 16 03:40 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1948684 Jun 16 02:18
rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1722979 Jun 16 02:05 rpm-4.0-0.33.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        59803 Jun 16 02:18
rpm-build-4.0-0.33.i386.r
pm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1474275 Jun 16 02:22
rpm-devel-4.0-0.33.i386.r
pm
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        25902 Jun 16 02:22
rpm-python-4.0-0.33.i386.
rpm
[patola@sheilamello rpm]$ rpm -Uvv rpm*
D: counting packages to install
D: found 5 packages
D: looking for packages to download
D: retrieved 0 packages
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm cannot be installed
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-4.0-0.33.src.rpm cannot be installed
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-build-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm cannot be installed
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-devel-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm cannot be installed
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: rpm-python-4.0-0.33.i386.rpm cannot be installed
D: found 0 source and 0 binary packages
[patola@sheilamello rpm]$ 

	You see, it looks like there's just no way to upgrade from rpm 3
to rpm 4. rpm 3 does not recognize the rpm 4 format and so I can't upgrade.
And that's all. Any solution?

	Patola
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-06-21 01:53:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12401 ***