'Twas brillig, and Jani Välimaa at 19/10/11 10:38 did gyre and gimble: > 2011/10/19 Colin Guthrie <[email protected]>: >> 'Twas brillig, and Mageia Team at 19/10/11 07:26 did gyre and gimble: >>> Name : gdm Relocations: (not relocatable) >>> Version : 3.2.1 Vendor: Mageia.Org >>> Release : 1.mga2 Build Date: Wed Oct 19 08:18:14 >>> 2011 >>> Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: ecosse >>> Group : Graphical desktop/GNOME Source RPM: (none) >>> Size : 1702567 License: GPLv2+ >>> Signature : (none) >>> Packager : Mageia Team <http://www.mageia.org> >>> URL : http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/ >>> Summary : The GNOME Display Manager >>> Description : >>> Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable >>> reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log >>> into your system with the X Window System running and supports running >>> several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time. >>> >>> wally <wally> 3.2.1-1.mga2: >>> + Revision: 156474 >>> - new version 3.2.1 >>> - create own subpackage for gir .typelib >>> - clean .spec a bit >> >> For packages that have a pretty high impact, you probably should test it >> before updating. >> >> In this case 3.2.1 introduces a new dconf system which totally breaks if >> you don't do some %post stuff to update the actual data file. >> >> These instructions were clearly documented and if you'd tested the >> package even minimally, you'd have seen the problem and no doubt found >> this commit quickly (I saw the problem, did a temporary fix), logged in, >> looked in git and found the commit immediately and then fixed the spec >> accordingly). >> >> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?h=gnome-3-2&id=25004e4d11bbd2e8a22d5bcf49f294e9f63d2ce5 >> >> >> So please in future, be considerate and test these packages before >> pushing otherwise you'll get a lot of unhappy users who cannot log in! >> > > Sorry, my bad. I'll do more thorough testing next time. I did read > NEWS and all, but didn't notice anything "abnormal" so I didn't test > the pkg enough. > > Luckily you were awake and fixed package pretty fast. Thx for that.
Yeah I've asked Ray on IRC to add a bit more info about that change (it should have been in NEWS IMO)... Anyway, no biggie but gdm in particular is probably one to always test first :) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
