On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 01:52:21PM +0300, Hetz Ben-Hamo wrote: > Hello people, > > Those who admin RH9 machines (and the older RH8 machines) surely knows about > the problems of installing RPMS and finding few seconds later that the RPM > install process has stuck.. > > Finally Redhat has seen the light and the latest RPM 4.2-1 should fix the > problem (the default RPM version which is install with RH9 is 4.2-0.69). > > You can grab the rpms (don't forget to take most of them - popt, etc.. from the > same directory!) from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.2/ > > I have just tested it by replacing 1500 RPMS installation divided to few > sessions - works great..
Has anybody tried them on RH8? BTW: the subject implies that this is a formal redhat release, whereas rpm.org has had fixed packages for this problem since around December 2002, IIRC. No idea why RH has never bothered publishing a bugfix . -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
