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Re: first impressions of Red Hat 8.0
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Steven Pritchard wrote:
>
> > * rpm is totally, completely, and utterly broken.
> >
> > OK, so that's a bit of an exaggeration, but I've definitely had
> > problems with it. Problems that were bad enough that I totally
> > lost the rpm database once. Just keep that in mind if you try
> > it. Don't add or remove a lot of packages until you see some
> > updates, just to be safe. (That, or at least make a backup of
> > /var/lib/rpm before you make any such changes.)
>
> I also had this happen in the short test I had done. I ended just
> reinstalling 7.3 on that machine. My problems were coincident with trying
> to add something with apt, so I may have been the problem myself.
I don't think so... It looks like apt works fine. It just looks like
any major changes to the rpm database are likely to trigger whatever
bugs are there.
I'm told by a friend at Red Hat that there is a known bug with
locking, but that shouldn't be causing complete database corruption.
I tried to trigger it again with rpm running under strace or ltrace,
but that just made rpm hang. :-/
I guess I should file a bug report anyway. You might want to do the
same.
> I would also add that it upgrades apache to 2.0, and does not transfer the
> 1.3 configuration files. This is a good thing, but be warned and do your
> web server upgrade during off hours (of course).
Good point. I forgot about that one. I also noticed that the package
name changed from "apache" to "httpd". I couldn't figure this out at
first, but then I noticed that the name of the package has changed on
the Apache distribution site as well.
Steve
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