[Mageia-discuss] Mandriva breakage warning * important *

Sat Dec 18 16:39:59 CET 2010

On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:32:31 -0500
+Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
+
+> Le 2010-12-18 02:44, Juergen Harms a écrit :
+> > I just found this message from Florian Hubold in the cooker
+> > mailing list
+> >
+> >  >todays update for mandriva-release-common from main/updates
+> >  >from 2010.1 breaks mirrorlist and therefore urpm*-tools
+> >  >altogether when a placeholder like $RELEASE is used with
+> >  >mirrorlist, and as this seems to be the default setup, many
+> >  >machines will be hit by this, effectively disabling package
+> >  >management.
+> >
+> > The server for the Mandriva forums appears to be (already?)
+> > broken, no possibility to warn people via that evident way -
+> > maybe this copy can help to minimise annoyance.
+> >
+> 
+> Thanks, but too late for me. My urpmi is now broken! Doh! There
+> is a thread of it on usenet. I wonder how they will go about
+> fixing this. Plus, I manage about 40 desktops for users in need
+> of help. Hmmmm ...
+> 
+> Marc
+> 
+Instructions for fixing the problem are here:
+
+https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=61941
+
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