Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Oct 2008 20:22 UTC, submitted by AdamW
Mandriva has today released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new major release of the popular distribution. 2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new graphical in-line upgrade capability, netbook compatibility, class-leading hardware support, and further improved support for working with mobile devices. For more details, see the Release Tour and the Release Notes. Get it at the download page, or go straight to the torrent list.
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Member since:2005-07-06
The RPM and urpmi databases are both locked by all MDV package management apps at the appropriate times. It's a bit hard to tell from your brief description exactly what broke, but if you can file a bug on it with a more detailed description, I will get it triaged to the appropriate maintainer. Thanks.
Member since:2007-02-17
The RPM and urpmi databases are both locked by all MDV package management apps at the appropriate times. It's a bit hard to tell from your brief description exactly what broke, but if you can file a bug on it with a more detailed description, I will get it triaged to the appropriate maintainer. Thanks.
I'm not sure if I have a broken package management system or not, but I had a similar "interference" event between the updater and the GUI package manager, and now there are a significant number (probably over 30%) of packages that refuse to install no matter how I try. GUI, urpmi, or just download (wget) the rpm file and try to install it from the local copy.
Every method I try now says "bad rpm" or a similar message. It happens for about 30% of the rpm files from any repository. If an application wants to install a number of dependencies, there is almost zero chance that it will install correctly.
The message I get when using urpmi is as follows:
Very frustrating. According to urpmi, the rpm files obtained from the mirror are corrupt.
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2008-02-26
The gui package manager broke because you apparently don't lock the packages properly. I was starting to install additional packages and when I hit "Apply" it told me another package manager was running. Update then came up and told me I had to update many things. I did so, and that permanently broke the GUI: "rpmdrake or some dependency needs to be updated". Only uninstalling it and reinstalling it through urpmi would fix it.
Edit just to add that rpmdrake wasn't even among the updated packages.
Edited 2008-10-10 16:38 UTC