[Mageia-dev] [ANN] rpm-4.9.1

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 15:59:19 CEST 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 22:33, D.Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Guillaume Rousse
> <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Le 13/09/2011 23:11, D.Morgan a écrit :
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Thierry Vignaud
>>> <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> rpm-4.9.1 has been pushed into core/updates_testing
>>>> You're welcome to test it.
>>>>
>>>> I've tested with success:
>>>> - live upgrade
>>>> - a special build of drakx-installer
>>>>  (the installer available on mirrors still uses older rpm-4.8.1).
>>>>
>>>> Please further test.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> See you
>>>>
>>>
>>> just to complete what thierry said,   this is in update_testing
>>> because we did big changes and we still need to apply/rediff some
>>> patches.
>>>
>>> Know issues:
>>>
>>> - rpm -b{a,i,s} does not work you need rpmbuild  -b{a,i,s}
>>
>> rpm -b is supposed to be deprecated for ages...
>
> Yes we plan to remove it too, but i fear that removing it now would be
> too hard for packagers ( so i first though of it for rpm 4.10 ) . But
> if ppl agree we can make it deprecated for us too.
>
> Btw i looked and asked and iurt use rpmbuild so nothing will be broken.
>

Uploads to updates_testing fail because urpmi fails when restarting
with new rpm:

error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available


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