http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/security-defensive_tools/product_review/PIT20010110S0010/1

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, James Oden wrote:

> I know what problem he had, at least with the rpm.  At some point openssh 
> began being built with a newer version of rpm than shipped with RH 6.2.  
> The solution is for the guy to do what he was supposed to do anyway, before 
> he started loading extra packages, which was to go to a redhat mirror and
> download the errata files pertinant to his install.  One of those updated
> rpms is an update of rpm.  From experience he probably would need to update
> the popt libraries also, as the new rpm (new to RH 6.2) depeneded on that.
 
Yes - the need to upgrade RPM to a more recent version is documented
in the file README-FIRST, which is in the same directory as the rpms
on the ftp sites.

-d

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