problem with 30Jan2001 release
The Linux RPM package for the latest beta release of Hugs, on 30th Jan 2001, won't install on any of my RedHat 6.2 systems. The package manager complains that the Hugs package has a major version number greater than 3, and this is somehow not acceptable. I hope this can be fixed before the 14th Feb full release. Regards, Malcolm
Malcolm Wallace wrote:
The Linux RPM package for the latest beta release of Hugs, on 30th Jan 2001, won't install on any of my RedHat 6.2 systems. The package manager complains that the Hugs package has a major version number greater than 3, and this is somehow not acceptable.
I hope this can be fixed before the 14th Feb full release.
The tradition seems to be to have an RPM for each major release, so following that, we should have at least an RPM built on 6.2, and an RPM built on 7.0. Does anyone know why the RPMs are OS version dependent, and/or if it is desireable to build them in an OS version independent way? One guess follows: It would appear that RPM assumes that the software you've built relies on the current versions of system libraries, and so probably gacks if you try to load it on a system w/ earlier libraries. But probably, there's a way to tell it that it's OK to link against older libs as well. --Jeff
| > The package | > manager complains that the Hugs package has a major version number | > greater than 3, and this is somehow not acceptable.
Does anyone know why the RPMs are OS version dependent, and/or if it is desireable to build them in an OS version independent way?
Hmmm, in a flash of inspiration, I realised that maybe the RPM package format and tools have had a new release. (The "major version number" in the error message must mean the RPM-version, not the Hugs version.) In this case I would expect an old RPM (e.g. built on RedHat 6.2) to unpack cleanly with either of the new or old RPM tools, but an RPM using the new format to unpack only with the new tool. So until RedHat 7 becomes more widespread, it should be sufficient to supply a single old-format RPM? Regards, Malcolm
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