Re: RedHat update of up2date.

I'd have to vote for releasing it.  I've been running it since the 11th
and have had no problems.  All my 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 clients like it just
fine.

Matt Gunter
Cypress Tech Group

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 08:06, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> OK, VOTE TIME.
> 
> I'm sitting on 1.4.2, which is up2date v2.8 and v3.0 compatibility,
> because we have reports that somethings broken in the delete code (The
> reason clean trees work is that they don't hit the bugs in the delete
> code).
> 
> Last night John B. gave me a mirror of his 18G unclean tree (its
> basically a mirror of ftp.redhat.com).
> 
> Guess what? Builds great for me using the same snapshot that broke for
> him.
> 
> TODAYS VOTE: 
> 
> Release a suspected 1.4.2 for those people who need the newer versions
> of up2date to work while we tree to find a tree that breaks for me, OR
> continue to sit on the code until we find that tree AND I figure out
> whats breaking?
> 
> Voting will end tomorrow at 10am EST.
> 
> 
> A clean tree is "any collection of dirs in any collection of channels
> where no channel contains more than one version of a given package"
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 03:05, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
> > I use the latest snapshot with 7.3 + up2date 2.8 and it's ok (current 
> > gave the last up2date the first time, second time, the new up2date 
> > connected transparently to the current server. Cool!)
> > -jec
> > 
> > 
> > Hunter Matthews wrote:
> > 
> > >Try the latest snapshot on the ftp site: the readme for 1.4.1 doesn't
> > >say its compatible with 2.8
> > >
> > >
> > >On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 11:02, Jacco Ligthart wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>Hi List,
> > >>
> > >>I have a 7.3 machine. If I update the up2date stuff to the latest version 
> > >>(up2date-2.8.39-1.7.3), then I can no longer connect to the curent server 
> > >>(1.4.1)
> > >>
> > >>The error is:
> > >>Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-7.3-i386...
> > >>There was a fatal error communicating with the server.  The message was:
> > >>404: "Not Found" while attempting to get
> > >>$RHN/redhat-7.3-i386/getObsoletes/20021016154554
> > >>
> > >>RedHat's website tells us:
> > >>This release of up2date improves the handling of package dependencies and 
> > >>which packages obsolete others. Many other bug fixes are included as well.
> > >>
> > >>It seems that redhat broke backwards compatibility with their new release of 
> > >>up2date.
> > >>
> > >>Jacco
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