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Subject: rpm (and possibly others) from RedHat 4.0 fail to run
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>Number:         2286
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       rpm (and possibly others) from RedHat 4.0 fail to run
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 26 12:50:01 PST 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Mar 8 23:18:46 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sat Mar  8 23:20:49 PST 1997
>Originator:     Victor Rotanov
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
FASTS Ltd.
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 2.2-current, linux compatibility installed.

>Description:

	rpm (and possibly other binaries) from RedHat Linux 4.0
	do not run.

>How-To-Repeat:

	> rpm
	ELF binary type not known

>Fix:
	
	Don't know

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
To: vitjok@fasts.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org,
        GNATS Management <gnats@freefall.freebsd.org>,
        freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/2286: rpm (and possibly others) from RedHat 4.0 fail to run
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:28:32 -0800 (PST)

 On 26 Dec 1996 vitjok@fasts.com wrote:
 
 > 	rpm (and possibly other binaries) from RedHat Linux 4.0
 > 	do not run.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > 	> rpm
 > 	ELF binary type not known
 
 did you brand the binary with brandelf?  (don't ask me for specifics... I
 don't run -current or even close..)  hope this helps... ttyl..
 
 John-Mark
 
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 http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/
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State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 8 23:18:46 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator says that this problem was fixed by running brandelf. 
>Unformatted:
