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Bug 13446

Summary: rpm-3.0.4 doesn't work with mkinitrd-2.4.3-1
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: wwwatnf
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Description wwwatnf 2000-07-04 04:50:48 UTC 
I am upgrading from vanilla Zoot to 2.2.16-3 (or trying to)
One step I am told to do in the HOWTO is update mkinitrd and friends.
It fails for reasons that are mysterious to me.

This is my current version
# rpm -q mkinitrd
mkinitrd-2.4.1-2

This is what happens when I try to upgrade.
# rpm -Uvh mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm 
only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed

This also happens with SysVinit-2.78-8, initscripts-5.17-1.
PLEASE EXPLAIN!

If this is just a usage problem, then please update
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade-3.html

The rpms appear to be ok, e.g.:
# which rpm
/bin/rpm 
# rpm --version
RPM version 3.0.4
# rpm -K --nopgp mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm
mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm: md5 OK
# rpm -K mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm
mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm: md5 OK
# rpm --checksig mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm
mkinitrd-2.4.3-1.i386.rpm: md5 OK

In case it matters, the rpms were downloaded from
ftp://ftp.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/updates/6.2

#uname -a
Linux lorelei 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 i686 unknown
Comment 1 wwwatnf 2000-07-04 20:12:50 UTC 
oops, this is a duplicate of 12401 - 3.0.4 doesn't handle rpm4 format.
this also happened on the 2/3 transition. knoknoknok - hullo? anyone home?
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2000-07-10 19:44:29 UTC 

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