[Mageia-dev] [ANN] rpm-4.9.1

Wed Sep 14 17:11:42 CEST 2011

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 15:09, Thierry Vignaud
+<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+> 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
+
+I suppose the problem is that's it's not an auto-select but
+installation of buildrequires which pulls new version of rpm
+