ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Wade Hampton wrote:
>>
>>> A couple of points about Fedora, YUM, and RPM.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> 2)  Since Red Hat 8 or 9, RPM has had issues with Berkeley DB
>>> including lockups and
>>>    __db* files that have to be manually deleted if updates crash or
>>> you CTRL-C while
>>>    doing an RPM. This has apparently never been fixed.
>> Did I not read someplace that this turned out to be a kernel race bug that
>> has finally been fixed? 
> 
> Yup (for the most part, anyway).

But isn't this about the 3rd or 4th time we've heard that?  I just have 
to wonder what possessed someone to think that berkeleydb was a suitable 
format without making a backup copy before every change.

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   Les Mikesell
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