How to update from rpm 4.4 to rpm 5.0

[Kevin Fenzi]

Sorry for the late reply... got busy. ;( 

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:38:09 -0800
JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found the 5.0 version of rpm at:
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/dries.studentenweb.org/apt/fedora.risky/fc7/x86_64/RPMS.dries/rpm-5.0-0.2.0.fc7.rf.x86_64.rpm

...snip...

Personally I would recommend never installing stuff you happen to find
on random mirror sites. Stick with the Fedora provided packages
wherever possible, and if not possible, stick with trusted and
maintained 3rd party repos like rpmfusion. 

> /var/tmp/ntfs-3g-1.5130-1.f7-root-root/usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g-1.5130
> + cp -pr AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING CREDITS NEWS README 
> /var/tmp/ntfs-3g-1.5130-1.f7-root-root/usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g-1.5130
> + exit 0
> /bin/sh: 17396: Memory fault

That doesn't sound good. 

> I posed the problem to the ntfs-3g users list, and they say
> the problem is with my version of rpm, and not with the spec file,
> nor with the resulting Makefiles.
> So, that is why I thought I should try to update to rpm 5.0

Let's step back even further here. Why are you trying to compile a
local version of ntfs3g? 

> By the way, even if I try to update via yum, and provide the binary
> rpms of the rpm packages directly as args to yum, yum fails because
> of dependency issues.

Yes, these packages are not ones you would want to use. 

Per other suggestions in the thread, why not upgrade to F10? 

> -JD

kevin
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