Re: fedora-l] Re: RPM upgrade discussion

[Warren Togami <warren togami com>]

Warren Togami wrote:
> R P Herrold wrote:
>
> > There is a known path for recovery from the RPM 'stale locks'
> > issue which does NOT require a non-security RPM 'update' --

To me it is laughable to expect users to tolerate this.  Though you are 
entitled to have your own opinion.  The users can decide on their own now.

> > Others may come out differently in all good intent; but except
> > for the unresolved subtle RPM exploit path mentioned on a
> > public list (which should properly be resolvable as the
> > SELinux capability extensions are rolled in [which will not
> > happen in fedora-legacy]), a change to rpm-4.2.x is just a
> > "upgrade to the latest and greatest."  No thanks.
>
> rpm-4.2.x is NOT what Fedora Legacy is doing.
>
> http://www.fedora.us/wiki/LegacyRPMUpgrade

Also the page states that upgrading RPM is not required to us the 
"updates" channel.

Warren