On Wednesday 24 December 2003 18:41, Ken Green wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I think it's time to take it to the expert list. At least you > > will double your chances of it being read by someone who > > recognises the problem. Sorry I wasn't much help > > > > Anne > > Anne: IIRC, I saw your or someone else tread last week > whereas some updates deleted some of the programs and > applications such as it did to my 9.2. I installed and > reinstaalled 10 last weekend and narrowed it down to one > or more of the 24 Bugfixes Updates. Do you have any idea > if the corrupted update(s) was/were fixed? > I believe so. This is what Vincent wrote on the MandrakeSecure list yesterday:
<quote> No time to reply to every message. Looks like our timing was bad on this for a few things. The cooker snapshot ISO slowed down the xfree86 mirroring, which may have been a problem for a number of people updating on Friday and possibly Saturday as well. If you think of the snapshot mirroring and people downloading them, the mirrors probably were moving slower than usual. Also, due to my over-protective scripts, not all of the old XF86 packages were removed and I neglected to tell Stew (who handled this update) about that. It shouldn't have mattered because the system where the hdlists were built didn't have them, but you never know. It also looked like some mirrors had corrupt hdlists... not sure how that happened, but it wasn't anything due to us. I did regenerate the hdlists to make all the mirrors force pick it up again this morning... I don't know how they mirror, but a rsync would have cleaned up the bad hdlists quickly, whereas something like wget or fmirror may not have.... and we can't control how mirrors mirror. So, in short, hopefully things will start to work as they should from this point forward. And we're really sorry for the inconvenience caused to folks... if we had known the snapshot was going out Friday, we likely would have waited until today to release. (/quote> It looks as though this was a set of circumstances that couldn't have been foreseen though I suspect that there will be more communication between Cooker and MandrakeSecure in future, as they probably both had a shock. No-one seems to know how the hdlists got corrupted though. Still, I think it is fair to say that you can expect the upgrade to work now. It would be nice, though, if someone who has done it would confirm that. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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