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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

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

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.

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?

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?

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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

Thanks. Now I understand what happened.