Re: update RHL9 rpm to 4.2-1?

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

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