On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Michael scherer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 08:44:00AM +0100, Juergen Harms wrote: > > 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. > > Ok, so I doubt people will listen to me, and I know that you are trying to > help, > but this is mageia-discuss, not mandriva-discuss. > > If we start to discuss Mandriva breakage and evolution here, people will > not > really see the 2 community as separate. And if they do not see us as a > separate > community, we will carry the bad reputation of Mandriva for the next 10 > years > because people will think "mageia == mandriva". > > As you surely doubt, reputation is z problem that can be quite hard and > long > to overcome as we learned in the past, and quite damaging for the success > of a project > in the long run. So it > is better to start now, by simply being fully separate from Mandriva and by > doing everything > we can to make sure we are not seen as a 2nd Mandriva. And this include > seeing Mageia > community as a separate entity, not as another Mandriva users community. > > So in the light of this explanation, could people please keep Mandriva > related topic > on Mandriva mailling list ? > > -- > Michael Scherer > Considering that most of us here are still using Mandriva, cause there has not been a Mageia release yet, it is important that we know something can be broken in the system we use to work and collaborate to Mageia. I do agree that, in the near future, we should focus only in Mageia, but for now we are still in between worlds. -- Diego Bello Carreño
