recent rh9 updates broke rpm?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 00:27 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> >> My machines are all running kernel-smp-2.4.20-42.9.legacy with
> >> yum-2.0.4-2 and rpm-4.2-1.  Has anyone seen this on a NON-smp machine?
> >> Or with yum-2.0.5?  I'm hoping to narrow down the bug a bit further.
> >
> > changes b/t 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 were not major - mostly functional bugs
> > nothing architectural.
> 
> Just a thought, but does yum or rpm depend on less in any way?  A race 
> condition (attempting to run the less binary during the brief moment 
> when the package is being replaced) might explain why such a simple 
> package could be causing such a troublesome update for several of us.

yum doesn't.

I'd be deeply surprised if rpm did.

-sv