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

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:24:53PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> We discussed this earlier during the package naming thread on 
> fedora-devel-list, but we should come to an agreement on this now since 
> this is one of the many questions we need to decide upon.
> 
> Should we force all Fedora Legacy users to upgrade to the latest version 
> of RPM for their distribution?

I'd start with forcing RH to finally release these errata. While built
from RH's rpm master himself, they still haven't made it into errata
after more than half a year!

> RH7.3 -> rpm-4.0.5
> RH8   -> rpm-4.1.1
> RH9   -> rpm-4.2.1

I'd go further and upgrade to at least 4.2. I have a well working rpm
4.2 on RH8.0 since January and recently ported 4.2. to RH7.3 (less
well tested, but I build all my RH7.3 stuff with it), so I can also
have the same yum 2.0.4 on all platforms RH7.3 upwards.

> Why?
> 1) Long term supportability.  RH8's rpm-4.1 is completely broken and 
> unsupportable.
> 2) Allows us to use a common package naming scheme with all 
> distributions from RH7.3 through FC.

100% agreement. 

Note that even 4.2.1 has still locking problems (but far less often
than < 4.2).

I think one should check out rpm-4.2.1-4.2, it is considered to be
enterprise quality, so it is a good candidate for a stable rpm.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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