[SOLVED] Question about urpmi update

[roti]

Hi,

I'm curious about one thing. I installed Mageia 3 shortly after it was released. I remember doing the first update after a fresh install, and the first thing I got was an update of urpmi, and then I had to do the update again for the rest of the packages. This makes sense, since it's better to update the package manager first and then everything else.

I recently installed Mageia again (this time with Gnome instead of KDE) and I got all my updates in a single step. (Note: I did not see whether on my new system urpmi was among the updated packages, and I also don't know how to check it). Everything went fine, and afterwards I don't get any available updates. So I wonder, why the different behaviour. The installation source I used is the same, so surely there must be an update for urpmi available.

Cheers,
Razvan

[jkerr82508]

There has been an update to urpmi. The latest version is urpmi-7.27.3-2.mga3
You can check which version you have, in a terminal:

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rpm -qa | grep urpmi

Jim

[roti]

Indeed, my version is urpmi-7.27.3-2.mga3. So, this means that the urpmi update came along with everything else. The question is, why did it happen like this and not like a few months earlier, when I got the urpmi update first, and then the rest.

[Latte]

Was urpmi updated this time as well or was it already up-to-date?
Did you use the same medium for both installations? Remember, there was some isos updated due to a bug (see blog post). Maybe there was the new urpmi packed in the updated iso?

[roti]

Hmm, could be that the new iso has the updated urpmi. That would explain it. How can I check that? Can I see a list of installed updates from a certain day?

[jkerr82508]

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rpm -qa --last | less

lists installed rpms, with the most recent first.

The latest urpmi is indeed on the newer classical DVD iso (but not on the live DVD's):

ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pu ... 86-DVD.idx
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pu ... 86-DVD.lst

Jim

[roti]

Thanks. Now I understand what happened.