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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