Bug 20655

Summary:	Bad SRPM's in security updates
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Michael Jennings (KainX) <mej>
Component:	fetchmail	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.2	CC:	dr, teg
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Description Michael Jennings (KainX) 2000-11-10 20:00:38 UTC

The following SRPM's for RedHat 6.2 were made with RPM4 and thus cannot be
used on
RedHat 6.2:

fetchmail-5.5.0-2.6.src.rpm
usermode-1.37-1.6.src.rpm

Comment 1 Daniel Roesen 2000-11-11 15:24:58 UTC

Try using RPM 3.0.5 which has forward-compatibility for RPM4.

Comment 2 Michael Jennings (KainX) 2000-11-11 18:39:08 UTC

Yes, it does.  However, what you probably don't realize is that it also uses
RPM4 semantics in the
macros file.  This breaks many RedHat 6.2 SRPM's.  So that's not an option.

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2001-10-17 12:05:34 UTC

rpm 4.0.2 has been released as an erratum for RHL 6.2.  This package
works for me fine in 6.2.  I do not see a bug here.

I think this bug can be closed Nalin, but I'll leave that for you to
decide.

Comment 4 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2002-01-18 17:39:26 UTC

rpm v4 is an update for RHL 6.2, you  need to install that.