checkinstall-1.5.3

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:39:31 PDT 2004


On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> > and is it safe to just grab the source and upgrade my rpm 3.x to 4.x for
> > COL 3.1?
>
> safe? yes. easy? not really. and there's no real reason. use the latest 3.x
> version and you can use 3.x and 4.x based rpms

That's not entirely true.  The rpm DB is compatible, however rpm-4.x has
quite a lot of features that 3.x doesn't have.

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