On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 15:09, Thierry Vignaud <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 September 2011 15:59, Pascal Terjan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> rpm-4.9.1 has been pushed into core/updates_testing >>>>>> You're welcome to test it. >>>>>> >>>>>> I've tested with success: >>>>>> - live upgrade >>>>>> - a special build of drakx-installer >>>>>> (the installer available on mirrors still uses older rpm-4.8.1). >>>>>> >>>>>> Please further test. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> See you >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> just to complete what thierry said, this is in update_testing >>>>> because we did big changes and we still need to apply/rediff some >>>>> patches. >>>>> >>>>> Know issues: >>>>> >>>>> - rpm -b{a,i,s} does not work you need rpmbuild -b{a,i,s} >>>> >>>> rpm -b is supposed to be deprecated for ages... >>> >>> Yes we plan to remove it too, but i fear that removing it now would be >>> too hard for packagers ( so i first though of it for rpm 4.10 ) . But >>> if ppl agree we can make it deprecated for us too. >>> >>> Btw i looked and asked and iurt use rpmbuild so nothing will be broken. >>> >> >> Uploads to updates_testing fail because urpmi fails when restarting >> with new rpm: >> >> error: dbiOpen: dbapi 1 not available > > it looks like in some case, priority upgrade fail to update perl-URPM along > rpm > though it did worked for me. > /me is looking why
I suppose the problem is that's it's not an auto-select but installation of buildrequires which pulls new version of rpm
