Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 13446
rpm-3.0.4 doesn't work with mkinitrd-2.4.3-1
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
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
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?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12401 ***