[Mageia-dev] Packages not updating?

Tue Oct 30 13:17:58 CET 2012

On 29/10/2012 20:01, AL13N wrote:
+> Op maandag 29 oktober 2012 19:52:47 schreef Anne Wilson:
+>> Earlier today I did a big update on Cauldron.  Since then my wireless
+>> connection has not been working.  I started to gather information to
+>> report this, but when I asked MCC for hardware detection I was
+>> immediately told that broadcom-wl-kernel and two other packages (one
+>> was broadcom-wl-kernel-netbook, I think) needed installing.
+>>
+>> Have I missed doing something, or should they have been picked up in
+>> the usual way?
+>>
+>> Anne
+> 
+> i saw your previous email too (gmail not showing your own messages is a bitch)
+> 
+Sorry about that.  I'm subscribed with this address, and once I realised
+I'd sent it from the gmail address I re-sent, thinking that the mod
+queue would just drop it or I would get a mod warning and I could cancel it.
+
+> i think it's normal, it could be just between syncs that you updated, and it 
+> could also be that repository problem that seems to have happened...
+> 
+> i just think that instead of MCC, if you done an update then, that it would 
+> have had the same effect.
+> 
+I used urpmi --auto-update.  I'm not sure what has broken, or why.
+While I'm using the netbook at home to test Cauldron it's not too big an
+issue.  I reported it in the hope that I can help debug the problem.
+
+Anne
+