update RHL9 rpm to 4.2-1?

[Matthew Miller]

A post on the rpm-list reminded me that Red Hat Linux 9 was never officially
updated to rpm 4.2-1 -- it's still got 4.2-0.69. The newer version, from
<ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.2/>, solves the incredibly common problem
of RPM getting itself into a state where it just hangs until you manually
clean up it's __db files.

I think it would be quite reasonable to put out this update for Fedora
Legacy. We've been using this updated version in BU Linux 3.0 (which is
RHL9-based) for over a year now, with great results.

Unless anyone has a strong objection to this, I'll file this request in
bugzilla too.....

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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
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