On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 05:52, Luca Olivetti wrote: > Luca Olivetti wrote: > > >> I think that in some cases the rpm database does not clean up properly > >> when you kill an rpm command in progress. I must say that I have seen > >> this problem only with the rpm-system shipped with Mandrake 9.0. > > > > > > Nope, I saw this also on 8.2 (in fact I have a cd writer server running > > 8.2 where rpm freaked out and I didn't bother to recover the database, I > > will just reinstall if I need to update something). > > And, btw, these corruption were while normal rpm install/upgrade, no > interruption whatsoever (the last one a week ago, and the rebuilddb > missed the upgraded package, ie. neither the old nor the new version was > in the database). > > Bye
Perhaps, to my thinking at least, the greatest advantage of urpmi over apt-get is the avoidance of dependency storms that yield a totally unstable box. I've seen this with Debian, yet in MDK I've upgraded over 100 rpms via urpmi and been able to keep it running without a hitch. James
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