Re: Lockup safety in rpm-4.1.1 and rpm-4.2

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 19:51, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 07:21:05PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > 
> > Ah.. that explains the thing then. After upgrading to rpm-4.2-1: no more
> > stale locks and rpm hangs caused by randon ctrl-C'ing when apt is being
> > run. Thanks for clarifying this!
> > 
> > The next question then: when can we expect errata rpm release for RHL 9?
> 
> When it's done, the errata currently needs to be redone because of stupid
> O_DIRECT breakage that the kernel folks choose to inflict on previously
> working code on already released distro's.

Care to elaborate: is something bad expected to happen if I use the
current rpm-4.2-1 package from www.rpm.org on RH9, compared to the
problems of rpm-4.2-0.69 ? I'd rather upgrade rpm to better version than
use dirty tricks for the cure.

> 
> No matter what: Positive reports (presumably accurate) as above will only
> expedite errata release.

FWIW it's 100% reproducible both ways (breaks if rpm downgraded, fixed
if upgrade) here...

	- Panu -