[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] [ANN] Mageia-release upload and urpmi breakage

Mon May 30 19:55:39 CEST 2011

Le lundi 30 mai 2011 à 18:42 +0200, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Mon, 30 May 2011, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> 
+> > Hi,
+> > 
+> > as we have uploaded the new version of mageia-release, some of you may
+> > have seen that urpmi sources have been changed to use 
+> > distrib/1/ instead of distrib/cauldron/ , especially if you didn't touch
+> > to the default configuration.
+> > 
+> > Not all mirrors are in sync, and in fact, most are not proposing the
+> > stable release yet ( especially the main mirror ), as we are still
+> > working on it.
+> > 
+> > So urpmi is likely broken for most testers that updated in the last
+> > hour.
+> > 
+> > So if you are affected, you can either 
+> > 1) wait until everything is working ( likely tomorrow )
+> > 
+> > 2) drop all sources and add again the cauldron one by hand
+> > ( urpmi.addmedia --distrib + url )
+> > 
+> > 3) change /etc/mageia-release by hand, replace "1" by "cauldron"
+> 
+> 4) install the new mageia-release packages from cauldron :
+>    urpmi http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/mageia-release-common-2-0.1.mga2.i586.rpm http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media/core/release/mageia-release-Default-2-0.1.mga2.i586.rpm
+> 
+> 
+> This is for people who want to stay on cauldron after the release.
+
+We should have waited before uploading this rpm. 
+
+People being upgraded to stable is a demand from users ( see -discuss ),
+and that would have been saner to wait at least until cauldron is
+reopened :/  
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+