checkinstall-1.5.3

Tim Wunder tim
Mon May 17 11:39:34 PDT 2004


On 10/30/2002 10:47 AM, someone claiming to be Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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> Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
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>>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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> please send me a 4.x-based rpm that doesn't work on the latest 3.x rpm. I have 
> yet to see one. I'm not saying that it isn't possible, but I've not seen one. 
> And what distros ship w/ 4.x? RedHat is a given, but who else?

>From Distrowatch.com (http://www.distrowatch.com/top.php?1):

Mandrake 9.0 
Red Hat 8.0 
Debian 3.0r0 
Sorcerer grimoire 
Gentoo sources 
Slackware 8.1
Lindows Click'N Run 




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