[Mageia-dev] [ANN] rpm-4.9.1

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 16:09:58 CEST 2011


On 14 September 2011 15:59, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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

it looks like in some case, priority upgrade fail to update perl-URPM along rpm
though it did worked for me.
/me is looking why


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