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RPM 5.0 released

Posted Jan 6, 2008 12:54 UTC (Sun) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: RPM 5.0 released by tzafrir
Parent article: RPM 5.0 released

Was it actaully fixed at all? I thought that rpm was changed to detect the filesystem being
mounted read-only, but that would not fix other problems, such as where the filesystem was
full, or one of the files being unpacked wanted to overwrite an immutable file, etc.

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