On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 20:12, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:02, Raphael Clifford wrote: > > There can be documentation > > for how to use redhat 8.0 with fedora-legacy can't there? a) upgrade > > rpm b) download yum from the yum home page (or get one with yum.conf > > for FL already configured for you) c) (if needed) update yum.conf for > > FL . I would strongly suggest that any new docs tell people to > > upgrade rpm to a less broken version as the version that comes with > > redhat 8.0 (at least) is truely awful. > > Again, these bugs in rpm are not triggered by yum use, only by rpm > direct use and apt use. Therefor there are many folk who will not > upgrade rpm, and we need to provide tool sets and instructions to > handle both camps. If it were up to me, we'd drop 8.0 from legacy all > together, as it was a complete crap platform, but community wishes > dictate otherwise. Hmm, actually you *could* build apt against rpmlib404 on RHL 8.0 and avoid the rpm-hanging-itself issue with apt as well without upgrading rpm itself. That'd mean having separate builds of apt for both old and new lib for those who want to upgrade rpm :-/ - Panu -
