[Mageia-dev] Broken Mageia-Update (Urpmi)

[Anssi Hannula]

19.11.2012 20:08, Robert Fox kirjoitti:
> On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 16:57 +0200, Sander Lepik wrote:
>> 18.11.2012 17:09, Thomas Spuhler kirjutas:
>>> On Sunday, November 18, 2012 05:20:09 AM Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>>> 18.11.2012 13:30, Thierry Vignaud kirjoitti:
>>>>> On 18 November 2012 11:38, Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Bug has been filed:
>>>>>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=looping+forever
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Updating Cauldron is broken as of this morning -
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [root at mainfox rfox]# urpmi --auto-update -v
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> detecting looping forever while trying to resolve dependancies.
>>>>>>> Aborting... Try again with '-vv --debug' options
>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Resol
>>>>>>> ve.pm line 1061. unlocking rpm database
>>>>>>> unlocking urpmi database
>>>>>> It seems the loop threshold Resolve.pm:1061 is way too low and detects
>>>>>> looping when there in fact isn't any. I bumped it up by several orders
>>>>>> of magnitude locally and then urpmi worked again.
>>>>> To what value did you bump it?
>>>> To 100000, but that was just a random value since I mainly just wanted
>>>> the upgrade to work. I don't know what would be a reasonable value.
>>> Did you upgrade it on the server? if yes, this didn't solve the problem.
>>>
>> No he didn't. Thierry, are you sure that your limit is correct? If
>> 100000 works then i don't see it as an endless loop. Current value seems
>> to be too low and there are soon as many bugs about update problems than
>> we have about broken draksnapshot.
>>
>> --
>> Sander
>>
> 
> I changed the value to 10000 as well and it worked.  So it is definitely
> too low of a limit (1000) -

As another random datapoint, I just tested (--test) upgrading one of my
mga2 boxes to cauldron, and the count was 8213 there. The loop took
approx. 3 seconds to execute, so we could probably make the value e.g.
50000 or 100000?

-- 
Anssi Hannula