Lucas Albers wrote:
Honestly, I think we all only care about one thing. Erratta for our release. The minumum amount of change necessary to keep using our systems. No change in rpm. The very smallest security updates required to keep our systems non exploitable.
Agreed. I see the benefit of upgrading rpm, but I also fear some of the
side effects.
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Please do not warn of side effects without giving concrete examples. We
(the fedora.us team) have been grappling with these issues for more than a
year now, and we are fully aware of the consequences of upgrading rpm. It
is my personal opinion that RH8 especially is UNUSUABLE without a rpm
upgrade, and it is almost entirely unfounded fear to not leave RH's
released version that prevents the benefits of the stable upgrade.
However if you have concrete examples of where this causes a great
failure, please make it known.
I have one, but I'm still in favor of forcing everyone to rpm 4.2. I upgraded to rpm 4.2 (from Axel's site) on a RHL7.3 box here, which forced me to remove ucd-snmp and ethereal, because ucd-snmp has a dep on librpm404, and ethereal depends on ucd-snmp. To get around this, Axel created a librpm404-compat package, which after I installed, I was able to reinstall ucd-snmp and ethereal, so there are ways around it, and that's the only problem I've had with upgrading a Red Hat Linux 7.3 system to rpm 4.2.
-- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE jcw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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