Re: RedHat update of up2date.

My vote: 1.4.2 WORKS GREAT for RedHat 8.0 and up2date 2.8!
Releeeeeeease!
:-)

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:
>>
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>>>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:
>>> 
>>>
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>>>
>>>>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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