[Mageia-discuss] Mandriva breakage warning *** important ***
Margot
margot at otfordduckscomputers.co.uk
Sat Dec 18 16:39:59 CET 2010
On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:32:31 -0500
Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
> Le 2010-12-18 02:44, Juergen Harms a écrit :
> > I just found this message from Florian Hubold in the cooker
> > mailing list
> >
> > >todays update for mandriva-release-common from main/updates
> > >from 2010.1 breaks mirrorlist and therefore urpm*-tools
> > >altogether when a placeholder like $RELEASE is used with
> > >mirrorlist, and as this seems to be the default setup, many
> > >machines will be hit by this, effectively disabling package
> > >management.
> >
> > The server for the Mandriva forums appears to be (already?)
> > broken, no possibility to warn people via that evident way -
> > maybe this copy can help to minimise annoyance.
> >
>
> Thanks, but too late for me. My urpmi is now broken! Doh! There
> is a thread of it on usenet. I wonder how they will go about
> fixing this. Plus, I manage about 40 desktops for users in need
> of help. Hmmmm ...
>
> Marc
>
Instructions for fixing the problem are here:
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61941
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Margot
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