Re: Suggestion for a new Download page

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

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 -