Re: [Dump-users] Dump/restore 0.4b42 released

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Thursday, June 25, 2009 7:06 PM +0100 "Keith G. Robertson-Turner" 
<dum...@sl...> wrote:

> Yes, as of version 4.7, RPM now uses SHA1 checksums instead of MD5,
> therefore older versions of RPM trying to verify packages built with
> the new version, will fail with the above error.
>
> http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.7.0

Is it safe to upgrade to that on a RHEL/CentOS 5.3 system? Seems like that 
would be the easiest way to deal with the problem long-term. Will the newer 
RPM deal ok with packages from the older repos? Will yum get along with it?

I went with CentOS instead of staying with Fedora because I didn't want to 
have to upgrade the whole OS every 6 months, just critical packages 
(including dump). I prefer to space the giant upgrades out to be every few 
years, and RHEL/CentOS has a very long service cycle.

For critical packages where I want the latest upstream features and bug 
fixes, I grab the source package from Rawhide (Red Hat development repo) 
and rebuild it to create a distro-specific binary package.