During the upgrade from mga4 to mga5, get-skype package failed with some script errors: --2015-04-27 17:16:04-- http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-4.3.0.37.tar.bz2 Resolving download.skype.com (download.skype.com)... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address 'download.skype.com' %prein(get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch get-skype-4.3.0.37-5.mga5.nonfree.noarch: install failed The complete report is available there: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15781 It is not clear to me what really happens, maybe a transient failure of the download.skype.com domain? cheers, chris. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Your network connection was probably down at that time. And this is something we can't avoid during upgrade.
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Since I was upgrading with a network install, I am pretty sure that my connection was up. The pb may have been that the skype website was down. I think we should have a safety mechanism for this because we also do the same get-* with flash such that the reliability of the upgrade does no longer depend only on the availability of our servers but also to those third parties. Namely, upgrade will work only if downloader && mageia server && skype && flash are fine. If we go like this, it is going to be a constant failure at some point :) That's why I was thinking the get-* could be moved to updates; then the system upgrade will no longer depends on them?
Network install can break connection anyway, more often when you are using wifi. And the error says "unable to resolve host address" - this means that DNS was unavailable.
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Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
AFAIK system upgrade also uses updates medias so it wouldn't help. And this problem is clearly about local connection issues. I don't see that anything can be done here.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WORKSFORME