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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Keld [iso-8859-1] Jørn Simonsen wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I was a bit puzzled when I tried to install
> openssh-server-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm on
> my redhat 6.0 system, it required rpm 3.0.3 - while I only have 3.0
>
> Is it really necessary to require rpm 3.0.3 ?

Try rebuilding the SRPM.

-d

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:19:24AM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Keld [iso-8859-1] Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I was a bit puzzled when I tried to install
> > openssh-server-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm on
> > my redhat 6.0 system, it required rpm 3.0.3 - while I only have 3.0
> >
> > Is it really necessary to require rpm 3.0.3 ?
>
> Try rebuilding the SRPM.

Well, I could probably do a number of things to remedy this.

But my point is that I would expect a number of other people
having the same trouble, and it thus would be advisable for
your project to pack the export files with a slightly less
bleeding edge rpm, so that the binaries could be installed
off-the-shelf on most systems.

Else people have to install new rpm, or recompile it from sources
or the like. Not so expedient.

Kind regards
Keld Simonsen

On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:

> Well, I could probably do a number of things to remedy this.
>
> But my point is that I would expect a number of other people
> having the same trouble, and it thus would be advisable for
> your project to pack the export files with a slightly less
> bleeding edge rpm, so that the binaries could be installed
> off-the-shelf on most systems.

rpm-3.0.3 is the latest stable release of RPM for the current Redhat
distribution. This is what the OpenSSH RPMs are built with.

I don't expect the RPMs will work for everyone, the differences in
PAM and glibc practically guarantee this.

Please regard the binary RPMs as a convenience only.

-d

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