db4.5 rel 5 in th-test

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Friday 29 of June 2007, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 08:07:06PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> > Please be very careful when upgrading db4.5 rel 5 from th-test. It
> > contains new patch that looks problematic on (it looks like) some kernel
> > versions while works nicely on others (no problem seen on carme for
> > example).
> >
> > The problem is:
> > rpmdb: unable to initialize mutex: Operation not supported
>
> IIRC robust mutexes are realtively new feature, so they probably need
> recent kernel version.

 >= 2.6.17 it seems.

What I'm more interested in is impact of that robustness patch on software 
other than rpm itself. Will it cause problems and so on...

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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