Re: ES3 update 8 has severe problems with "pvm"

> a) is anyone else having this problem?
not me. Upgrade went smoothly. Architecture is x86_64. Which one is yours?

> b) BEWARE!  You probably want to avoid running "up2date" on systems
> with "pvm" installed unless you are a masochist.
rpm -qa |fgrep pvm
pvm-3.4.5-6_EL3

> c) applying update 8 using Redhat Network went very smoothly for me on
> a system which didn't have "pvm" installed.
> 
> I note that 
>    rpm -q --whatrequires pvm
> didn't suggest any dependencies, so those of us not doing parallel
> distributed programming may want to do "rpm -e pvm; up2date -p" as
> a workaround before trying to apply update 8.


Kind Regards,
Dirk

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