Rex Dieter wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Wade Hampton wrote:
A couple of points about Fedora, YUM, and RPM. [...]
- Since Red Hat 8 or 9, RPM has had issues with Berkeley DB
including lockups and __db* files that have to be manually deleted if updates crash or you CTRL-C while doing an RPM. This has apparently never been fixed.
Did I not read someplace that this turned out to be a kernel race bug that has finally been fixed?
Yup (for the most part, anyway).
But isn't this about the 3rd or 4th time we've heard that? I just have to wonder what possessed someone to think that berkeleydb was a suitable format without making a backup copy before every change.