Problems with older RPMs on Fedora
Warren Togami
warren at togami.com
Tue Dec 9 09:34:38 UTC 2003
Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having problems with a v3 RPM on fedora core. I'm trying to install ARCServe 9
> for Linux on Fedora but each time it goes to install a RPM it segfaults. Doing a
> rpm2cpio I can extract and view the contents of the RPM. It appears from rpm v4.2.0
> to 4.2.1 that the rpm db has been changes from db3 to db4 and it appears to be the
> cause of the problem because it installs OK on RH9 so the RPMs aren't corrupt.
>
> I'm looking to go to RHEL to solve the problem but from what I can tell RHEL is
> running the same version of RPM (from the SRPM packages on ftp.redhat.com) so it
> looks like I'll have the same problem and hence not achieve anything.
>
> Has anyone seen this before or know of a work around. Are v3 RPMs incompatible with
> v4.2.1 rpms?
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
segfault isn't good. If your package manages to segfault rpm, then you
may have discovered a bug somehow. Is that package freely
distributable? If so it would help if we could download it in order to
attempt to investigate.
Please CC me in reply otherwise I might miss it.
Warren
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