[CLUE-Tech] rpm incremental upgrade?

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Ed,

I have not upgraded modutils. However, I had similar problems
upgrading rpm so that I could upgrade newer packages.

However, I have upgraded the stock rpm that comes with RH6.2 from
v.3.0.4 to v 3.0.5 by doing an incremental upgrade. I have not
gone beyond this because I have not found the need to do this.

You might want to try this before attempting other software
upgrades.

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"Young, Ed" wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade modutils so that I can make modules_install kernel
> 2.4.1, but I can't upgrade modutils because I get rpm errors like:
> "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM"
> 
> So I tried to upgrade rpm from 3.0.3 to 3.0.6 and got the same error:
> 
> root at gerakina ed]# rpm -ivh rpm-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
> error: rpm-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> [root at gerakina ed]# rpm --version
> RPM version 3.0.3
> [root at gerakina ed]#
> 
> So I decided it needed a less drastic jump in version numbers but it still
> failed:
> 
> [root at gerakina ed]# rpm -ivh rpm-3.0.6-5x.i386.rpm
> error: rpm-3.0.6-5x.i386.rpm cannot be installed
> [root at gerakina ed]#
> 
> So what's up with this, and how do I upgrade rpm and modutils, binutils,
> etc.
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Ed
> 
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