Bug 26260

Summary:	urpmi cannot find urpmi rpm perl-URPM meta-task udev glibc curl aria2 perl-MDV-Distribconf wget systemd bash
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Felix Miata <mrmazda>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	screenshot of urpmi errors

Description Felix Miata 2020-02-26 08:47:36 CET

Created attachment 11520 [details]
screenshot of urpmi errors

Initial summary:
urpmi cannot find urpmi rpm perl-URPM meta-task udev glibc curl aria2 perl-MDV-Distribconf wget systemd bash

To reproduce:
1-urpmi urpmi rpm perl-URPM meta-task udev glibc curl aria2 perl-MDV-Distribconf wget systemd bash on a normally running mga8 installation previously upgraded from mga7 using URPMI method instructions on https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Cauldron

Actual behavior:
1-bad line
2-invalid line
3-problem reading synthesis file of medium  "Core Release"
4-invalid line
5-problem reading synthesis file of medium  "Nonfree Release"
6-invalid line
7-problem reading synthesis file of medium  "Tainted Release"
8-urpmi cannot find packages named urpmi rpm perl-URPM meta-task udev glibc curl aria2 perl-MDV-Distribconf wget systemd bash

Expected behavior:
1-urpmi rpm perl-URPM meta-task udev glibc curl aria2 perl-MDV-Distribconf wget systemd bash get upgraded

This has happened on two different PCs in as many days.

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2020-02-26 12:25:12 CET

Is this a duplicate of https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26124

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 Felix Miata 2020-02-26 13:24:57 CET

Looks like it. This one had been updated last 14 Nov. I tried to follow its comment #3, but it needed more rpms:

lib64rpm9-4.15.1-3.mga8.x86_64.rpm
lib64rpmsign9-4.15.1-3.mga8.x86_64.rpm
perl-URPM-5.24.1-3.mga8.x86_64.rpm
python3-rpm-4.15.1-3.mga8.x86_64.rpm
rpm-4.15.1-3.mga8.x86_64.rpm
rpm-plugin-syslog-4.15.1-3.mga8.x86_64.rpm
rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit-4.15.1-3.mga8.x86_64.rpm

Auto-select is working 766 packages now, but I have other installations that may be a while to get to, so I suppose the list of manually needed packages will change and grow. Will there be a better way for the others?

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2020-02-26 13:50:01 CET

There shouldn't be too many other people affected.

People who choose to use cauldron are expected to follow the dev mailing
list. It was explained there that people had one month to install the
updates before the change in the compression method took effect. It's
only cauldron users who didn't install updates during that month who
will run into this problem. The updates to rpm to handle the compression
change were also provided for Mageia 7, so people who upgrade from 7 in
the future will not be affected.

Closing this bug as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 26124 ***

Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Status: NEW => RESOLVED

Comment 4 Felix Miata 2020-02-26 14:07:06 CET

(In reply to Dave Hodgins from comment #3)
> People who choose to use cauldron are expected to follow the dev mailing
> list.

For what definition of "follow". I've been a subscriber to dev since before Mandriva's inception.

> It was explained there that people had one month to install the
> updates before the change in the compression method took effect.

I missed that thread. By what title? When did it start?

Resolution: DUPLICATE => FIXED

Comment 5 Dave Hodgins 2020-02-27 11:00:32 CET

My apologies. I checked my archive, and there was no such message on the
dev mailing list. As I follow all updates as part of qa, I was aware of
the change, and alos followed the discussions on the sysadmin list too about
the implementation of the change on the build system a month after the cauldron
versions of urpmi was updated to handle the compression change. I
mis-remembered what was announced where, when.