[Fedora-legacy-list] Force rpm upgrade?

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Fri Oct 31 16:21:21 UTC 2003


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On Friday 31 October 2003 00:24, Warren Togami wrote:
> Should we force all Fedora Legacy users to upgrade to the latest version
> of RPM for their distribution?
>
> RH7.3 -> rpm-4.0.5
> RH8   -> rpm-4.1.1
> RH9   -> rpm-4.2.1
>
> Why?
> 1) Long term supportability.  RH8's rpm-4.1 is completely broken and
> unsupportable.
> 2) Allows us to use a common package naming scheme with all
> distributions from RH7.3 through FC.

I see no (immediate) reason not to do this, and plenty of good reasons to 
do this.  +1 from me as well.

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