checkinstall-1.5.3

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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> Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> > 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?

binary RPMs should all work.  However, go ahead and try to rebuild an SRPM
and you'll run into all kinds of hell.  And yes, Redhat is the only place
that i've seen this occur.

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