On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Christoph Maser wrote:
Dear users of rpmforge
I apologize for the, hopefully few, problems the update of perl packages
in rpmforge caused lately.
My motivation to take on this large project was to provide more quality
on rpmforge with up2date perl packages. Once the bulk update is done we
can keep the perl packages up2date in a timely manner.
I will immediately try to fix all problems which are reported and before
continuing find a way to avoid this to happen again.
I regret what did happen. I ask you to report any problems which you see
so I can fix them immediatly.
Chris,
Don't feel disappointed about what you are doing. The perl updates are
important and the resolution problems are a temporary situation.
People should not use RPMforge for production systems anyway, they should
cherry-pick and test those packages in their own repositories.
In fact, I think the main problem is that yum simply cannot handle this
properly, it bails out and refuses to work, while apt-get is much better
for this.
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The following packages will be upgraded
iozone (3.315-1.el5.rf => 3.326-1.el5.rf)
perl-IO-Socket-SSL (1.17-1.el5.rf => 1.26-1.el5.rf)
perl-Net-DNS (0.63-1.el5.rf => 0.65-1.el5.rf)
perl-Net-SSLeay (1.32-1.el5.rf => 1.35-1.el5.rf)
perl-PDF-API2 (0.69-1.el5.rf => 0.73-1.el5.rf)
perl-Package-Constants (0.01-1.el5.rf => 0.02-1.el5.rf)
perl-Pod-Simple (3.05-1.el5.rf => 3.07-1.el5.rf)
perl-Sane (0.02-1.el5.rf => 0.03-1.el5.rf)
xorriso (0.3.8.pl00-1.el5.rf => 0.4.0.pl00-1.el5.rf)
The following packages have been kept back
exiv2 (0.17.1-1.el5.rf => 0.18.2-1.el5.rf)
perl-rrdtool (1.2.30-1.el5.rf => 1.3.7-1.el5.rf)
rrdtool (1.2.30-1.el5.rf => 1.3.7-1.el5.rf)
9 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 647kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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As you can see, it keeps back the packages that pull in new dependencies,
or those that have a resolution problem. It does not bail out because
something cannot be resolved.
The perl modules I have installed were not impacted by your updates, and a
large number of RPMforge users have no issues either.
Thanks for taking care of the perl updates !
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