[Mageia-discuss] Mandriva is switching to rpm5, and other news

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op vrijdag 03 december 2010 11:06:07 schreef Ahmad Samir:
> On 3 December 2010 11:43, Thomas Backlund <tmb at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Maarten Vanraes skrev 3.12.2010 03:01:
> >> well, i'm not adverse to cooperation, but RPM5 is in my opinion FAR too
> >> unstable to be used for use on our first release.
> >> 
> >> I would say, let mandriva find the bugs first and let it give rpm5 a
> >> testrun
> >> with their users; by the time we hit our second release, we will have a
> >> for
> >> sure stable version of it.
> > 
> > Yeah,
> > Current rpm5 breaks even its own db _way_ too easy leaving a mess...
> > Let mdv cope with the breakage....
> > 
> > As important package rpm is, we want it rock solid.
> > 
> > Time will tell...
> > 
> > --
> > Thomas
> 
> Agreed, even if Mageia switches to rpm5 that shouldn't happen now at
> all; everyone is working on setting up the bases, many other tasks to
> worry about / work on already. :)

great, i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels this way.