Bug 106094

Summary:	SUSE uses RPM version 4.1.1 while 4.2 is better
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Friedmund Lassmann <friedl>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Dr. Werner Fink <werner>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	friedl
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Friedmund Lassmann 2005-08-22 09:27:06 UTC

SLES 9 and all SUSE 9.X versions and now also OpenSUSE 10 beta come with RPM 
version 4.1.1 while RedHat is using RPM 4.2 since RHEL 3 / RedHat 9. And on 
ftp://jbj.org/pub/rpm-4.4.x you can already find 4.4.2.

It would be very helpful if SUSE could use at least RPM 4.2. This version adds 
some very useful support for transactions and rollback, see 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
And 4.2 is also better in resolving dependencies (I know that YAST takes care 
about that, but every now and then its faster to use the command line..)

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-22 09:39:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106093 ***