On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 01:45:45PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:45:26AM +0000, James Powell wrote:
>
> > Someone here upgraded with no problem, but hadn't run any of the Helix
> > updater on his 6.x.
>
> The biggest problem was that it trampled all over my sendmail and apache
> configurations. I had compiled them myself and not installed them via
> rpm. So what. It should have at least asked my permission before
> fucking around with stuff in /etc which wasn't in its database.
>
> > You can download an rpm of the updated rpm (errr...). Can't remember
> > where I picked mine from...
>
> All the rpms of the new rpm I could find were in the new rpm format. Which
> makes a lot of sense. Oh yes. I looked on rpmfind.net and rpm.org, both
> of which you would expect to Do The Right Thing.
>
Perhaps this was what I got?
"In addition, rpm-3.0.5 will handle an incompatible change in rpm
packaging that will be used in Red Hat 7.0."
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA-2000-051-01.html
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