[Mageia-dev] Upgrade test + missing rpms

Mon Apr 4 20:46:28 CEST 2011

Hi,
+
+so as mentioned last wenesday ( but I seems to have forgot to send a
+email on the list ), people who asked for a mandriva vm to test upgrade
+can get them from d-c :
+http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/people/misc/
+
+There 6 of them : 2 archs * 3 desktop.
+
+The format is raw, so most virtualisation softwares will be able to use
+them. 
+
+The root password is mageia, so does the login and password of the only
+user on it. 
+
+Now, while I was on it, I also redid my upgrade test of server virtual
+machines :
+
+1) it seems libcryptsetup.so.1 is in 2 rpms, and that's likely a bug.
+
+2) tmpwatch show a huge readme ( as does apache, but I fixed apache ).
+
+3) rails, ruby-activesupport, ruby-actionwebservice, for puppet
+- xymon-client ( and the rest of xymon ) 
+- python-ipy ( for some libvirtd script )
+- transifex ( with patches that I sent upstream , see i18n@ and
+sysadmin@ ml )
+- postgrey
+- netcat-openbsd, for libvirtd
+- python-flup, for various fastcgi python software
+- epoll
+
+4) epoll would requires a splitted package with requires on latex ( s
+texlive pull 300 mo, this is too much for my poor vm ).
+
+5) pootle was discussed as a something to look at, and it was installed
+on the test vm so maybe that's something to consider too.
+
+6) packages should be updated to latest version, if possible and tested.
+
+I didn't took the opportunity to upgrade a clone of others servers ( as
+I mainly work on alamut ( web application server + pgsql )  and valstar
+( svn, ldap, etc ). 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+