RPM compatability

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:13:52AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> wp-6.0-1.i386.rpm: RPM v1 bin i386 wp-6.0-1

Wow that really is that ancient.  And 6.0 was probably one of the worst
versions ever made of word perfect.  Buggy beyond imagination.

> no output (just goes back to the shell prompt).
> 
> If the above format, version 1, is correct, then the fact that I am
> running a rpm 4.4.1 may be the problem. Another poster suggested that I
> find the source for the compatable rpm, and run that rpm instead.

alien assumes new rpm's and uses rpm2cpio to extract the contents.  I am
pretty sure older rpm versions were not based on cpio at all.

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