On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2003 01:19, Klaasjan Brand uttered: > > So? All apt does is fork an "rpm -Uvh" process for the app it wants to > > install. And yes, it's happened to me in both cases. > > Blink, you sure about that? Last time I looked at apt, it did not pass things > off to the /usr/bin/rpm binary, and instead tried to use the rpm libs itself. > Have they fixed this yet? Blink-Blink ... and apt-rpm did not check for other running RPM processes, and ran with --nodeps, practically guaranteeing a 'deadly embrace' lockup, needing a 'kill -9' and database repair to remedy with the post rpm-4.0 database model. -- Russ Herrold
