RPM upgrade discussion

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 04:44, 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.
> 

I'd like to reiterate - that's only for yum-2.x. Yum-1.x works fine with
rpm 4.0.4 and I've been using 1.x for quite a while now on a whole lot
of machines.

-sv