[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] [ANN] Mageia-release upload and urpmi breakage

[Michael Scherer]

Le lundi 30 mai 2011 à 18:42 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > as we have uploaded the new version of mageia-release, some of you may
> > have seen that urpmi sources have been changed to use 
> > distrib/1/ instead of distrib/cauldron/ , especially if you didn't touch
> > to the default configuration.
> > 
> > Not all mirrors are in sync, and in fact, most are not proposing the
> > stable release yet ( especially the main mirror ), as we are still
> > working on it.
> > 
> > So urpmi is likely broken for most testers that updated in the last
> > hour.
> > 
> > So if you are affected, you can either 
> > 1) wait until everything is working ( likely tomorrow )
> > 
> > 2) drop all sources and add again the cauldron one by hand
> > ( urpmi.addmedia --distrib + url )
> > 
> > 3) change /etc/mageia-release by hand, replace "1" by "cauldron"
> 
> 4) install the new mageia-release packages from cauldron :
>    urpmi http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/mageia-release-common-2-0.1.mga2.i586.rpm http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/mageia-release-Default-2-0.1.mga2.i586.rpm
> 
> 
> This is for people who want to stay on cauldron after the release.

We should have waited before uploading this rpm. 

People being upgraded to stable is a demand from users ( see -discuss ),
and that would have been saner to wait at least until cauldron is
reopened :/  

-- 
Michael Scherer