Subject: Re: failed to install iptables rpm
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 14:56:50 MDT
At 11:31 PM -0700 8/20/01, Murias O'Ceallagh wrote:
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>Tim,
>Thank you so much for your explanation. It rocked. I am one of those
>that lieks to understand why I can or can't do something.
>
>Your explanation though raises two questions.
>1) in reference to the stuff below that I snipped in.. How is this done?
>I thought with a rpm you just rpm --install <package> .... If it requires
>a source rpm.. I have actually been looking for docs on how to use those
>appropriately and not found all that much. ie the man page and the
>how-to's at linuxdoc.
Ah -- I think we have got our wires crossed. My explanation was for
how one can install a precompiled RPM kernel and/or sources (to
satisfy RPM dependencies), while actually using an entirely different
kernel compiled from non-RPM kernel sources. I guess it's been too
long since I've even thought about compiling kernels from RPM source
packages. :)
>second question, I have tried to install the kernel in rpm format and got
>an error (stated in one of my previous postings) the exact error that
>machine spewed forth to me;
>only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
>
>thus I was unable to install a kernel from rpm.
The only thing that comes to mind is that perhaps the packager used
RPM build tools that are more recent than your version of RPM. But
I've never seen that error before, and am not sure exactly what it
means.
-- Tim Seufert
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