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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