On Wed, 09 Apr 2003, Bob Tanner wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 April 2003 01:37 am, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:56:13PM -0500, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > > Redhat 9 is aptified.
> > >
> > > I'm still using 0.5.4, so I'm not 100% sure if that is compatible with
> > > 0.5.5 release of apt.
> >
> > it wasn't when i last tried, you'll get into a problem where rpm completely
> > breaks -- requiring a
> > rpm --force --nodeps <old version of rpm>
> >
> > grab the new apt from freshrpms and real-time-ify it =)
> 
> I would, but I saw on the apt-rpm ml, that 0.5.5cnc4.1 has a vicious bug in it 
> that can corrupt your rpm database (rare circumstance) and a new release is 
> forth coming.
> 

Heh, I guess I am rare since I've been having this problem non-stop. I
was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what I did wrong. Luckily
I found this, which is probably what Bob is referring to:
http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/apt-list/2003-March/000013.html

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