"Gabe Turner (officer)" wrote: > > Yeah, I got the advisory for the rpm rpm update yesterday. Seems idiotic > to me that they would release packages that need the _new_ rpm rpms before > they even _release_ the new rpm rpms... > > Gabe I just find it interesting that RedHat is making everyone upgrade to a new version of RPM when they plan to move to an entirely different package format in the 8.x series (though maybe I should keep quiet -- that will still be a year and a half or two years in the future, and there is always the possibility that it just won't happen). From what I understand, the new format will be a sort of über-package, which will be used by pretty much everybody (merging the .deb and .rpm camps.. Dunno about the Slackwareians, though ;-) -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Manager: One who knows / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ more buzzwords than you. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org