I am more of an end user lurker, but would like to contribute where and when I can. So far I have been able to follow the threads without much difficulty and am a pretty avid computer tech. I run RedHat 9 on a dedicated server (not 100's of servers like some of you) and I was wondering in what areas I could "study up" to be a help to this group. -Christian Reynolds -----Original Message----- From: fedora-legacy-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-legacy-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Christian Pearce Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 1:52 PM To: fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: RPM upgrade discussion Hello. I am new to the list and I just got up to speed. I am hoping to contribute in every way possible. I have to agreed with this as well. If Yum-1.x in functional for updating 7.x machines and rpm 4.0.4 is stable then let sleeping dogs lie. This does raise the question of Red Hat 8.0 and Red Hat 9. Are they unstable enough to warrant an upgrade? Quite frankly I don't have enough recollection to say either way. I know for a fact I sometimes run into problems with Red Hat 8.0 that requires me to kill rpm upgrades and remove database files. So this is what I assume people are talking about. Again I think there should be one way of doing this. So if we aren't going to upgrade 7.x machines because they are good enough. And the Fedora Core 1 rpm binary package is stable. Then we should make the Red Hat 8.0 and Red Hat 9 (if it is a problem i don't know) edge cases that can be handled as a decision to be made by the end user. This also would follow the spirit of the Fedora Legacy framework as Jesse stated below. Not to mention people should work to phase out their Red H! at 7.x - 9 installations. So I hope in a couple years this becomes a mute talk. This leads me to the following question. Can we provide the rpm package as a extra or crontrib package? I apologize for my lack of correct terminology I am still getting up to speed. -- Christian Pearce http://www.commnav.com Jesse Keating said: > > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:00, seth vidal wrote: > > I'd like to reiterate - that's only for yum-2.x. Yum-1.x works fine > > with rpm 4.0.4 and I've been using 1.x for quite a while now on a > > whole lot of machines. > > I tend to agree here. I've been using it on my 7.x box for quite a > while without issues. It seems that since 7.x's yum is functional, and > 7.x's RPM is mostly functional, I propose that we don't upgrade RPM as > a legacy upgrade. People can still upgrade it themselves if they want, > but it doesn't really seem to fall into Legacy's proposed framework, > and thus it shouldn't happen. I'm strongly urging not to upgrade RPM > as a legacy upgrade. > > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE (geek.j2solutions.net) > Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraLegacy) > Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) > GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating > > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list > -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
