problem with 30Jan2001 release

[Jeffrey R. Lewis]

Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> The Linux RPM package for the latest beta release of Hugs, on 30th
> Jan 2001, won't install on any of my RedHat 6.2 systems.  The package
> manager complains that the Hugs package has a major version number
> greater than 3, and this is somehow not acceptable.
>
> I hope this can be fixed before the 14th Feb full release.

The tradition seems to be to have an RPM for each major release, so following that, we should have at least an RPM built on 6.2, and an RPM built on 7.0.  Does anyone know why the RPMs are OS version dependent, and/or if it is desireable to build them in an OS version independent way?  One guess follows: It would appear that RPM assumes that the software you've built relies on the current versions of system libraries, and so probably gacks if you try to load it on a system w/ earlier libraries.  But probably, there's a way to tell it that it's OK to link against older libs as well.

--Jeff