[Mageia-dev] [ANN] rpm-4.9.1

Wed Sep 14 16:09:58 CEST 2011

On 14 September 2011 15:59, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>>> 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
+
+it looks like in some case, priority upgrade fail to update perl-URPM along rpm
+though it did worked for me.
+/me is looking why
+