4 Aug
2002
4 Aug
'02
08:49
On Sunday 04 August 2002 12:45 am, V K wrote:
SuSE has fiddled with rpm in some way to make rpm understand the hacked .patch.rpm packages. rpm is buggy. With rpm-3.0.6-278 (shipped with SuSE 8.0), rpm -UvhF ....patch.rpm ....rpm will corrupt the rpm data base as well as make rpm terminate with error.
All this is not directly security-related though.
Volker
Scuze me??? Your distro publisher's tools corrupts your database and its not a security issue for you??? I'd like to be your Banker.!! -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska