Call for comments - RPM upgrade

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:04:28PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote :
> 
> > It is my opinion that RH8 and RH9 should be upgraded to the latest 
> > versions for the respective distros.
> 
> I totally agree. If it were only up to me, 7.x would also get rpm 4.1.1 or
> 4.2.x as you then get much less hassles to have the most recent apt and yum
> versions working.

Have you checked the rpm 4.2/yum 2.0.4 version in ATrpms? That's
exatcly what they are aiming at.

> All my servers running 7.0 and 7.3 are now using rpm 4.1.1 and yum 2.0.x,
> but I must admit that I got a weird problem on many of them after the
> upgrade which required "rm -f /usr/lib/rpm/Pubkeys" to get rpm working
> again... so I really wouldn't recommend mass-deploying that update in the
> current state of things (rpm bug with sigs needing to be fixed?).

I haven't seen that, if you have a spare 7.3 machine, could you test
whether ATrpms' 4.2 rpms also mess up with the Pubkeys? Thanks!
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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