fedora-l] Re: RPM upgrade discussion

[Warren Togami]

R P Herrold wrote:
> 
> There is a known path for recovery from the RPM 'stale locks'
> issue which does NOT require a non-security RPM 'update' --
> Others may come out differently in all good intent; but except
> for the unresolved subtle RPM exploit path mentioned on a
> public list (which should properly be resolvable as the
> SELinux capability extensions are rolled in [which will not
> happen in fedora-legacy]), a change to rpm-4.2.x is just a
> "upgrade to the latest and greatest."  No thanks.
> 

rpm-4.2.x is NOT what Fedora Legacy is doing.

http://www.fedora.us/wiki/LegacyRPMUpgrade

Warren