Re: (-) Sorry, your distribution type is unsupported.

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Thursday, September 28, 2000 18:32 -0600, Warren Young 
<tangent cyberport com> wrote:
+-----
| I don't know everything about it, but the change that requires your RPM
| database to be updated is due to the fact that they changed from
| Berkeley DB 1.85 to Berkeley DB 3.1.  I don't know what exactly that
| buys them, but DB 1.85 is ancient in computer terms.  It exists solely
+--->8

Mainly, that you don't get database corruption as often.  The btree access 
method in 1.8[56] is known buggy and can corrupt databases; this may be 
where the corrupt-db problems with RPM 3.x came from.

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