[NTLUG:Discuss] RedHat 8 and broken rpm

[MadHat]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 11:26, Kyle Davenport wrote:
> Ryan Sweat <ryans at cecentertainment.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 22:11, MadHat wrote:
> >> have you tried
> >> rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> >Yes.. that works until I try to install another rpm, then it breaks just
> as before.
> 
> a well known problem.  very sad.  there is a beta package on redhat.com
> that fixes some of these hangs, but not all.  sorry I don't have the link
> anymore but it is rpm-4.1-9.i386.rpm
> 
> i'm also suspicious that the rhnsd (and the rhn-applet-gui on the desktop)
> may be causing a conflict.  disable them until you use them.

Well, I will say that I do not use any of the RHN shi^H^H^Hstuff and
have never had any problem with RH8 and rpm or the rpm-databases

-- 
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