[Mageia-dev] [ANN] rpm-4.9.1

[Pascal Terjan]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 15:09, Thierry Vignaud
<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I suppose the problem is that's it's not an auto-select but
installation of buildrequires which pulls new version of rpm