How to update from rpm 4.4 to rpm 5.0

[Kevin J. Cummings]

JD wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> Please look at my reply to Kevin Fenzi re; where I got these RPMS:
> in short, from
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/dries.studentenweb.org/apt/fedora.risky/fc7/x86_64/RPMS.dries/ 
> 
> That will answer your questions :)

No, but it does pose more questions!  B^)

Dries used to run a Fedora software repository.  Most of his packages 
were sucked up into RPMFusion.  It wouldn't surprise me if all were not.
In order to be useful, if Dries is providing the RPMs for RPM 5.0, then 
you should be able to find all the necessary dependencies in the SAME 
REPOSITORY.  Downloading just the RPM is the WRONG thing to do.  Look 
into using yum and configuring the dries repository correctly.

In this case, look for the real Dries repository.  F7 is no longer 
supported.  Only a few sites have all of their packages and updates 
intact and available.  You'd have to find all of the dependencies by 
yourself (through pbone.net) if you insist on going this route, and 
there is no guarantee you are going to find all of them!

My suggestion:  Find RPMs you need in a current 3rd party Fedora 
Software repository, determine what release it is (F8?  F9?  F10???) and 
upgrade to that Fedora release before playing with RPM 5.0.

> Yeah, I know it's "risky" business, updating from such repos.
> But as I indicated to my reply to Kevin Fenzi, I a trying to solve
> an rpmbuild problem.

I agree with others here.  You are going way too far out of your way to 
try something that is not necessarily guaranteed to work, yes?

-- 
Kevin J. Cummings
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