Re: rpm

Stefan Fent <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:19:22 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.implementation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Wichmann, Mats D <[email protected]> [040219 18:17]:
> 
> > is there any special reason for using
> > rpm-3.0.6?
> > I'm asking because rpm4 is mostly used meanwhile,
> > and the package impl is using is missing at least x86_64
> > support. 
> 
> I'm in the process of changing to 4.1 now.
> I was trying to build it without having
> rpm generate its own shared libraries,
> but that seems to be broken (it doesn't
> end up linking in the beecrypt library
> if you configure that way, and then all
> the links fail).
> 
> It's purely historical (for grins, one
> reason for leaving that way for lsb 1.3
> was that SUSE was still using a 3.x
> version of rpm in those days).

:-)
Hmm - not since September last year, 9.0 uses 4.1
Ok, this is what I wanted to know.
When will it be available? 
(phase2 stops here, as x86_64 is missing in 3.0.6)


Stefan
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