Re: recent rh9 updates broke rpm?

[Damian Menscher <menscher uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, seth vidal wrote:

> > My machines are all running kernel-smp-2.4.20-42.9.legacy with
> > yum-2.0.4-2 and rpm-4.2-1.  Has anyone seen this on a NON-smp machine?
> > Or with yum-2.0.5?  I'm hoping to narrow down the bug a bit further.
>
> changes b/t 2.0.4 and 2.0.5 were not major - mostly functional bugs
> nothing architectural.

Just a thought, but does yum or rpm depend on less in any way?  A race 
condition (attempting to run the less binary during the brief moment 
when the package is being replaced) might explain why such a simple 
package could be causing such a troublesome update for several of us.

Damian Menscher
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