[lazarus] [Fwd: FPC for Lazarus]

Wed May 23 05:30:37 EDT 2001

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Michal Bukovjan wrote:

> Mandrake 7.1 is somewhat old. Latest version is Mandrake 8.0, on which
> it works.

I never used mandrake, so I can't tell; But the other distros are around 7,
so I assumed they were also there.

>
> And yes, minor version change matters here. The version 4 RPMs are
> supported by rpm-4.x shipped with RH 7.0 and higher or for older Red
> Hats (like 6.2) you have to upgrade to rpm 3.0.5 or higher to be able to
> use these packages.
> The update to rpm 3.0.5 is officialy recommended by Red Hat for their
> older distros if you need to install these new format RPMs.

Hmmmm.
So far for rpm being a universal format. Back to .tar.gz
Slackware will rule once more :-)

Michael.