[Mageia-dev] [ANN] rpm-4.9.1

Wed Sep 14 15:59:19 CEST 2011

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 22:33, D.Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+
+Uploads to updates_testing fail because urpmi fails when restarting
+with new rpm:
+
+error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available
+