RPM upgrade discussion

[Warren Togami]

Chuck Wolber wrote:
> 
>>2) Should we upgrade to rpm-4.2.x for RH7.x?  While the benefit for
>>apt-get would be minimal, the benefit for yum would be immense as that
>>would enable the use of yum-2.x.  Another key benefit would be
>>compatibility with the newer RPM GPG signatures.
> 
> 
> RPM 4.0.4 is just so damn stable, it'd be hard to risk an upgrade. Also, I
> must express a bit of ignorance here when it comes to yum, as I didn't
> realize that *adding* yum would require an RPM upgrade.

The only issue is yum-1.x is the only version that works with rpm-4.0.4.

Warren