[Fedora-legacy-list] Re: Force rpm upgrade?

[Lamar Owen]

On Friday 31 October 2003 04:25 pm, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Lucas Albers wrote:
> >> No change in rpm.

> > Agreed. I see the benefit of upgrading rpm, but I also fear some of the
> > side effects.

> is my personal opinion that RH8 especially is UNUSUABLE without a rpm
> upgrade, and it is almost entirely unfounded fear to not leave RH's
> released version that prevents the benefits of the stable upgrade.

The precedent has already been set.  Red Hat itself required an RPM upgrade 
awhile back to get errata for RH 6.2 (at the least).  They released newer rpm 
packages for all the then supported versions, and required that rpm be 
upgraded first, since the actual rpm structure changed, and the errata rpms 
were going to be built with the new version.  So rather than having to 
support rpm 3.0.5, they forced the upgrade to 4 (I don't remember the exact 
versions right off).  I've had to do this before on low-end sparc boxen (the 
last Red Hat for sparc was 6.2).  Getting a fresh 6.2 install fully updated 
was quite an undertaking the last time I did it.  At least on sparc.  
(although I am still running a Red Hat 5.2+updates installation at another 
site in production due to some strange binary-only software).
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