[plug] I have a new hat!

[Craig Ringer]

> Just a quick word of caution/advice/whatever...  on the internal UWA 
> technical list a message indicating that a colleague used yum to update 
> "several files from the Fedora site" including rpm.  "This killed rpm." 

Interesting.

> so he had to do a fresh install as it would not allow him to remove it 
> (the updated rpm.)   It's probably the equivalent of installing unstable 
> bits of Debian into a stable Debian, but then I've not been tempted to 
> make smoke that way, myself :-)

I've updated XFree86, gtk2, and a bunch of other stuff from Fedora, so 
I'm running a hybrid Fedora/RH9 system. It works perfectly - I'm really 
impressed. I wasn't forced to download most of the core of Fedora just 
to upgrade a few packages, either, which I always found I had to do to 
get bits of sid (it always seemed to want to update glibc, locales, gcc, 
etc etc).

Craig Ringer