[Mageia-dev] [ANN] rpm-4.9.1

Tue Sep 13 23:33:38 CEST 2011

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Guillaume Rousse
+<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Le 13/09/2011 23:11, D.Morgan a écrit :
+>>
+>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Thierry Vignaud
+>> <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>>>
+>>> Hi
+>>>
+>>> 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.
+