On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:36:06PM +0100, Simon Amor wrote:
> Judging from what I can see in the install script for 'rpm' these
> files should have been renamed or converted to db3 format.
> Any idea how I can fix this without reinstalling the system? It would
> be a shame as querying the installation date for all the packages show
> that two of them are left from Dec 6, 1998.
Hmm, can you not unpack the rpm rpm with rpm2cpio or some such and then
run the conversion stuff by hand?
Though of course the canonical solution for being able to upgrade
between releases is quite simply use Debian. :)
Simon.
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