[LinuxFailSafe] Installing the SGI packages failure....

[Scott Henry]

>>>>> "M" == Michael Gesundheit <mikeg@rocketmail.com> writes:


M> Trying to install the FailSafe packages from SGI I get the following error:

M> only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
M> error: FailSafe-1.0.3-1.src.rpm cannot be installed

M> What is my problem??

That means that the src rpm was built using rpm v4, which creates
packages not readable by rpm v3. Possible solutions or workarounds
are to update your system to a newer release that uses rpm v4
natively, install the rpm v4 package on your system, looking at the
CVS tree (which is noticable newer than the 1.0.3 rpms).

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