On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> %-> I am about to embark on an upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1. I am
> %-> currently downloading the rpms from a rawhide mirror. Is
> %-> there anything other than geting all the 4.0.4-0.43 rpms
> %-> that I need? That seems too easy. What about gnome stuff?
> %-> Will the surrent Gnome I have from a brand new 6.2 install
> %-> work?
>
> Don't think you need to update GNOME as well, but it can't hurt of course.
> However, unless I'm completely wrong, the Rawhide X 4.0.1 RPMs are in
> version 4 format. That will create problems, as updating RPM is a PITA. I
> think someone posted a message saying that RPM 3.5 (?) groks RPM 4 db files,
> but I'm not sure.
>
Yes. That's correct. RPM 3.0.5 (IIRC) does understand RPM4 files.
You will need to upgrade to that version of RPM in order to install
any RPM4 files.
John
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