RPM limitations at kickstart time?

[Oden, James]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Hal Wine
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 6:05 PM
> To: Kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RPM limitations at kickstart time?
> 
> with rpm 4.2.3-10 (RHEL 3 ES update 3), I'm seeing rpm database
> corruption when having an RPM install another RPM in a %post scriptlet
> during kickstart.
Hey Hal,

Could you characterize these corruptions?  Do you just have stale locks,
or is the 
data itself corrupted, and in what way if you can tell?

> 
> Supposedly, this is permitted since 4.1-1, and it works fine 
> outside of
> kickstart (anaconda).
>
Permitted and widely used such that it could claimed to be rock solid
are two different things, but then how is going to get used if there
aren't guinea pigs (-;

Cheers...james