I was having the same problem. I had to upgrade RPM to RPM 3.0.5.
After that everything was fine.
-- Lance
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Subject: Re: Lack of updates of common packages
>
> So now I'm feeling really stupid;
>
> went to rawhide - got perl 5.6 rpm
>
> did rpm -ivh perl-5.6*
>
> message "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this
> version of RPM" (The distribution on this system is RH 6.2)
>
> checked rpm version (rpm --version) 3.0.4 returned
>
> no matter, went back to rawhide got rpm version 4.0
>
> did rpm --ivh rpm-4.0*
>
> message "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this
> version of RPM"
>
> duh?
>
> Tom
>
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