RPM functions taking forever

Wed Mar 3 07:54:03 UTC 2004

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:38:42 +0100 (CET), Manuel Aróstegui Ramirez wrote:

> Ed, can you tell me if this bug could be avoid
> removing packages with:
> apt-get remove package.

No, because depending on what version of apt-rpm you refer to, it either
calls rpm or uses rpmlib, which leads back to the same code base.

An RPM update for RHL 8.0 which improves the behaviour can be found here,
though:

  http://download.fedora.us/patches/redhat/8.0/i386/RPMS.stable/

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