fedora-l] Re: RPM upgrade discussion

[Warren Togami]

Warren Togami wrote:
> 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' --

To me it is laughable to expect users to tolerate this.  Though you are 
entitled to have your own opinion.  The users can decide on their own now.

>> 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

Also the page states that upgrading RPM is not required to us the 
"updates" channel.

Warren