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

Mon May 30 21:39:06 CEST 2011

Le 30/05/2011 19:55, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 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 :/  
+> 
+
+I confirm that I see the mga2 packages in the updates of my MGA RC :(
+
+However, I do not understand why, because AFAI understand the initial
+email, I should now be pointing to MGA 1 repos, no longer cauldron one.
+
+$ cat /etc/mageia-release
+Mageia release 1 (Cauldron) for x86_64
+
+$ rpm -qa | grep release
+mageia-release-Default-1-0.12.mga1
+lsb-release-2.0-34.mga1
+mageia-release-common-1-0.12.mga1
+
+Daniel
+