--- Lamar Owen <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:52 pm, James J. > Ramsey wrote: > > I found that I can easily trash the RPM database > with > > two commands: > > > LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 rpm -Uvh \ > > rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm > > Why did you do the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL during the rpm > installation? Because when the RealPlayer RPM is installed, it pops up a dialog for entering user information, connection speed, and then it pops up RealPlayer itself. > Wouldn't > that break the NPTL RPM stuff, creating the > corruption? What *I* had understood was that while older apps choked with NPTL, up-to-date apps could work either way. I never read anything about LD_ASSUME_KERNEL breaking anything. > Asking that RPM be resilient from this maluse would > be like asking Unix to not > delete the whole filesystem when executing as root > 'rm -rf /' . That's a bit much, considering not only that rpm predates NPTL, but that there was nothing in the release notes that indicated that LD_ASSUME_KERNEL could do anything worse than reduce performance a bit. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree
