On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:02 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > A post on the rpm-list reminded me that Red Hat Linux 9 was never officially > updated to rpm 4.2-1 -- it's still got 4.2-0.69. The newer version, from > <ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.2/>, solves the incredibly common problem > of RPM getting itself into a state where it just hangs until you manually > clean up it's __db files. > > I think it would be quite reasonable to put out this update for Fedora > Legacy. We've been using this updated version in BU Linux 3.0 (which is > RHL9-based) for over a year now, with great results. > > Unless anyone has a strong objection to this, I'll file this request in > bugzilla too..... Unless there is a security reason to push this update it's not a good idea to mess with people's systems. not the least of which is it breaks some other packages, too. -sv -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
