On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:17:01 +0100, Ingo T. Storm wrote: > >The "RPM stale locks" problem is a serious issue for the average > >user despite the "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*" work-around > >being available. > > I don't think that many "average users" will use FedoraLegacy. They are > probably on FC1, Suse, Gentoo, Debian, you-name-it by now. rh7x is legacy, > isn't it? I don't refer to RPM on rh7x, because I don't see any problems there. That "RPM hangs" problem was introduced with rh80, which some people want to cover with Legacy updates, too. I could or should have written s/user/admin/, because that holds true even more. But users are also affected by the upgrade rush at the end of a rh80/rh9 life cycle and many have not installed their system when the OS was released, but months later. Regardless of whether user or admin, it is beyond most people's comprehension why such an annoying problem with RPM is not fixed. On rh80, the RPM from the fedora.us "patches" repository works a lot more reliable. --
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