arctic Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Welcome Mandriva 2009. I just downloaded the final dvd-iso (found a mirror that had it prematurely available for download. :P), gave it a look already and - it rocks! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Final release is here? Maybe now I can switch mirrors from cooker to 2009.0. I think it was a bit premature to release now, there's still some bugs outstanding. Especially if you have your screensaver password protected in Gnome. You can't unlock and you have to kill gnome-screensaver to get back in from a console. Also, CTRL-ALT-F1 or similar won't work because the keyboard is locked and only an ALT-SYSRQ-R will free it to be able to get you to the console to do this anyway! Am still trying to find the official release notes too. Some of my packages have just been updated to 2009.1 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Ah... the website is being reuploaded with the new info. Only a few more minutes.... :) Haven't seen the official release notes anywhere on the net yet, but just wait a couple of minutes. ;) 2009.0 Errata: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata PS: It is there... but only on the french site till now. http://www.mandriva.com/fr/produit/mandriva-linux-one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Welcome Mandriva 2009. I just downloaded the final dvd-iso (found a mirror that had it prematurely available for download. :P ), gave it a look already and - it rocks! B) I have some reservations about 2009.0, I think the gnome and xfce versions are very good but kde4 (and kde3) :unsure: anf getting 2009.1 updates...not good at  all.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.I.P Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 (edited) Just be ware/be aware, http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=95606 it seems that letting 2009 automatically set up your sources/mirrors, it may be setting them up for cooker (2009.1) instead of 2009.0, which may not worry those who are comfortable with cooker, but others may not be so comfortable, and taken by surprise. This is also applying to those installing from the official media, it seems. Edited October 9, 2008 by R.I.P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 I changed my mirrors from cooker to 2009.0 using the manual page of easyurpmi but editing 2008.1 from the advanced option to copy and paste the text. And can confirm, that the 2009.1 packages exist for the ones I have installed. Now, since mandriva-release-common has been updated, you cannot use auto-detect anymore on the easyurpmi page, because it now thinks my version is 2009.1 and not 2009.0! Weird but not good! And: urpmq --list-url shows them as devel and cooker urls still! :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 I have some reservations about 2009.0, I think the gnome and xfce versions are very good but kde4 (and kde3) :unsure: Who uses KDE? :P Just kidding. and getting 2009.1 updates...not good at  all....Haven't noticed that yet. Thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 They're still using devel repos even in the releases. Someone buggered up the release! All that work they put in to making it a faster release, they've now borked the updates so you end up with cooker from the official release CD. Bad, bad bad. Even after I added 2009.0 manually, I get the devel repos. It's shocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Ugh... wow.... :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Here's how I was trying it, but don't have all repos - mainly plf. Anyway, here was my script: [root@esprit ian]# cat urpmi_2009 urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Main' 'media/main/release' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Contrib' 'media/contrib/release' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Non-free' 'media/non-free/release' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Main32' '../i586/media/main/release' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Contrib Updates' 'media/contrib/updates' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Non-free Updates' 'media/non-free/updates' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Main32 Updates' '../i586/media/main/updates' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Main Backports' 'media/main/backports' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Contrib Backports' 'media/contrib/backports' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.x86_64.list' 'Non-free Backports' 'media/non-free/backports' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.x86_64.list' 'PLF Free' '../../../2009.0/free/release/binary/x86_64' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.x86_64.list' 'PLF Non-free' '../../../2009.0/non-free/release/binary/x86_64' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.x86_64.list' 'PLF Free Backports' '../../../2009.0/free/backports/binary/x86_64' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.x86_64.list' 'PLF Non-free Backports' '../../../2009.0/non-free/backports/binary/x86_64' which should work in essence. The urpmq --list-url: [root@esprit ian]# urpmq --list-url Main ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/main/release Main Updates ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/main/updates Main32 ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/main/release Main32 Updates ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/main/updates Main Backports ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/main/backports Contrib ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/contrib/release Contrib Updates ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/contrib/updates Contrib Backports ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/contrib/backports Non-free ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/non-free/release Non-free Updates ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/non-free/updates Non-free Backports ftp://ftp.tuniv.szczecin.pl/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/x86_64/media/non-free/backports clearly still showing devel. Maybe it's just the repos that are pointing to devel and not being updated correctly to reflect the official release. My updated packages from this morning: [root@esprit ian]# rpm -qa | grep -i mdv2009.1 drakx-kbd-mouse-x11-0.64-2mdv2009.1 mandriva-release-common-2009.1-0.1mdv2009.1 drakxtools-backend-11.67-4mdv2009.1 mandriva-release-Free-2009.1-0.1mdv2009.1 drakxtools-curses-11.67-4mdv2009.1 harddrake-11.67-4mdv2009.1 harddrake-ui-11.67-4mdv2009.1 drakxtools-11.67-4mdv2009.1 although saying that: [root@esprit ian]# rpm -qa | grep -i mdv2008 soundwrapper-1.6-1mdv2008.1 lib64dvdread3-0.9.7-7mdv2008.1 perl-Gtk2-Notify-0.04-2mdv2008.1 lib64magick10.7.0-6.3.2.9-10mdv2008.0 pyxdg-0.15-5mdv2008.1 x11-driver-video-ati-6.9.0-2mdv2008.1 lib64icu38-3.8.1-2mdv2008.1 there's still 2008.1 packages in there too :). This isn't so bad, but the 2009.1 ones are, since now with the packages that got updated, my release is now 2009.1 and not 2009.0 :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 apperantly it's a server side error but still the people that downloaded, installed and updated are screwed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Unless you know what you're doing, I suggest you wait for an official announcement before downloading. It usually appears on the official Mandirva Blog. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 apperantly it's a server side error but still the people that downloaded, installed and updated are screwed I'm wondering if there is a way to force downgrade the rpm. Have been checking man page for urpmi, but not found it yet. Maybe I need to find a mirror with the old packages and use rpm to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 I always just use smart, it allows forced downgrading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted October 9, 2008 Report Share Posted October 9, 2008 Your experiences remind me of the last iPhone release. I guess sometimes having a slow internet connection can be a blessing. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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