RPM upgrade discussion

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 05:00, Warren Togami wrote:
> 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.

What is wrong with yum-1.x?

-sv