If anyone would like to help test the latest RPM on Centos 3, heres your chance. There are several new features that are not mentioned in Jeff's email, but as he said he wants to make sure it does no harm more than anything else. As an example though, this version supports:

- runtime depedency checking (think of being able to have cpan modules that weren't installed by rpm being detected, or crazy dependency like requires a particular processor of a particular stepping). - autorollback patches are worked in (this is still in progress and experimental, but, 4.4.3 will be the first official release of rpm with the latest autorollback code).

There are other features add also, and of course many fixes.

Cheers and Enjoy...james

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeff Johnson jbj@jbj.org Date: Nov 3, 2005 5:47 PM Subject: [Rpm-devel] rpm-4.4.3-0.34 for CentOS3 To: RPM internals development and distro coordination rpm-devel@lists.dulug.duke.edu

I've compiled rpm-4.4.3-0.34 against CenTOS3.

There is a yum repository with the necessary packages at http://wraptastic.org/pub/i386-CentOS3-linux/RPMS

Note that these packages are compiled with --with-mutex=UNIX/fcntl. If you are wrestling with NPTL issues and rpm databases, then these packages will almost certainly help.

Also note that I firmly believe that NPTL -- with unified thread and process locks -- is the best and most general choice for rpmdb locking.

There are still uses for fcntl locking with, say, build trees for - NPTL legacy linux systesm, like rpmforge, and perhaps others, are doing, where fcntl locking is a far saner choice than posix mutexes because of the mixed +/-NPTL environment.

Any/all help checking the CentOS3 rpm-4.4.3-0.34 is appreciated. I'm mainly interested in verifying rpm-4.4.3-0.34 does no harm. on CentOS3 (and RHL9) rather than testing of new features.

Report bugs (and successes please ;-) at http://bugzilla.redhat.com or here on rpm-devel list.

Enjoy!

73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ Rpm-devel mailing list Rpm-devel@lists.dulug.duke.edu https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/rpm-devel