[2041] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: RedHat 4.2 Installation on small-gods broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Tue Jul 21 14:49:52 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:48:34 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <35B4E148.CD80E34@mit.edu>
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@cygnus.com>
> When using rpm (on a working
> system) to query these packages you get: "Data type 9 not supported." My
> guess is that someone built packages using the RedHat 5.X version of RPM
> which may not be compatible with 4.2 systems.
Yes, as I recall, this error message is encountered when trying to read a
RPM-2.5.x-created package with older versions of RPM. (I don't know exactly
which versions are involved.)
The fix is to be sure you're using a recent version of RPM, such as 2.5.1.
I'd suggest, for example:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-4.2/updates/i386/rpm-2.5.1-0.i386.rpm
I'll leave it to the people familiar with redhat-athena to dovetail this new
revision into their install procedure. :-)
