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Mageia Blog (English) : The Grand Update – brace yourselves!
10 de Maio de 2018, 10:03 - sem comentários aindaIn the remaining hours before the hdlists are regenerated, and we can all update our Mageia 6 systems with more than 400 packages, here’s some info – very important info – about the update process.
It’s vitally important that the update completes without interruption! Here’s what you need to do:
Plasma Screen locker – turn it off
Disable the Plasma screen locker. You can do this in System Settings, Workspace, Desktop Behaviour, Screen Locker:
Reliable connection
Make sure you’re on a reliable internet connection and have reliable power.
If the connection drops out during the update, your system could be left in an unusable state. Don’t even begin to update unless you’re sure you can continue until it’s complete. The same applies if the power supply disappears.
Power, hibernation and sleep settings
If you’re updating a laptop, make sure it’s on AC power, and make sure that it won’t hibernate or sleep before the update is complete. Check the power management settings in your system settings – you might need to change them for the duration.
The hdlists will start to be available from Friday, 19.00 UTC; by then, all mirrors should have been fully updated. If there’s any delay, we’ll let you know!
Now, just to get an idea of what’s coming in the update, some links to the package lists in Bugzilla:
Enjoy!
Mageia Blog (English) : The Enormous Mageia 6 Update
5 de Maio de 2018, 11:22 - sem comentários aindaWatch this space, we said – well, your patience is soon to be rewarded!
Releasing the Mageia 6 updates for QT5, KF5, Plasma, KDE and LXQt has just been approved. There will be well over 500 packages in total!
To help reduce the chance of users trying to install the updates from a mirror that hasn’t been fully updated, the hdlist generation will be held for 24 hours after the updates are pushed from updates testing to the updates repository. This should help ensure that the mirrors are fully synced before the hdlist generation is turned back on, and the updates are actually made available for users to install from the normal updates repository.
The hdlist is the list of packages, and their version, that the update system uses to know if updates are available – it is much smaller than the updates themselves, so delaying it will not impact the mirror synchronisation.
The next step will be to retest upgrading from Mageia 5 KDE to Mageia 6 Plasma, so we can turn the flag back on to allow upgrading using mgaapplet. Once that’s done, the limited provision of security updates for Mageia 5 that we’ve been doing will cease.
Then we can start producing and testing the Mageia 6.1 iso images to allow installing on systems with newer CPUs.
After Mageia 6.1 is released, Mageia 7 will become the primary focus, although Mageia 7 has already been in development for some time.
Also, we just learned yesterday about the new Spectre NG bugs. Once the mitigations for those are available, Mageia 6 installed systems will get those updates, but we’ll have to decide whether to build Mageia 6.2 iso images, or leave those updates for Mageia 7, for live iso users.
Roundup
And, of course, there have still been many other updates since the last Roundup – here’s what happened in Weeks 17 and 18:
Security fixes:
- php Mga5, 6
- gsoap Mga6
- boost Mga6
- ghostscript Mga5, 6
- java-1.8.0-openjdk, copy-jdk-configs Mga5, 6
- links Mga 5, 6
- anki Mga6
- xdg-user-dirs Mga6
- libofx Mga6
- webkit2 Mga6
- ming Mga6
- sox Mga5, 6
Bugfix:
- freerdp Mga6
… and almost a thousand updated packages into Cauldron for Mageia 7! A great big vote of thanks to our devs and QA people, without whom we would all be lost.
Remember to keep watching the usual resources: the Mageia AppDB, PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening.
Enjoy!
Mageia Blog (English) : Weekly Roundup 2018 – Week 16
23 de Abril de 2018, 9:56 - sem comentários aindaTeam leader elections are almost complete. Here’s the list, also viewable any time at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Org_Council#2018:
- Atelier: Donald Stewart (Schultz), Filip Komar (filip)
- Bug Squad: Marja van Waes (marja), Samuel Verschelde (stormi)
- Documentation: Yves Brungard (papoteur), A.M. Desmottes (lebarhon)
- Forums team: Florian Hubold (doktor5000), isadora (isadora), Pascal Vilarem (Maât)
- I18n: Yuri Chornoivan (yurchor),
- Packagers: Neal Gompa (ngompa), Nicolas Lécureuil (neoclust)
- QA: David Hodgins (DavidWHodgins), Bill Kenney (wilcal), Thomas J Andrews (TJ)
- Security Team: David Walser (luigiwalser)
- Sysadmins: TBA
The first meeting of the new Council will be on IRC this week; for meeting logs see http://meetbot.mageia.org/. Meeting logs are open to all!
Work on the LXQt packages is still ongoing; watch this space for Great Plasma Update news. Updates and advisories this past week are coming along just fine – around 400 updates into Cauldron, and the following security advisories:
- libtiff Mga 5, 6
- thunderbird, thunderbird-l10n Mga 5, 6
- zsh Mga 6
- flash-player-plugin Mga 6
- python-paramiko Mga 6
- firefox, firefox-l10n, nspr Mga 6
As always, you can check for yourself on Mageia Advisories, the Mageia AppDB, PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening.
Mageia Blog (English) : Weekly Roundup 2018 – Weeks 14 & 15
16 de Abril de 2018, 9:51 - sem comentários aindaMany thanks for your patience! This is turning into a bi-weekly roundup lately, but we’ll try to get it back on track very soon.
Team leader elections are happening: Donald and Filip continue to lead Atelier, Papoteur leads Docteam, Yuri leads i18n and the process is underway for all teams. We’ll know the make-up of the Council in the coming days – thanks to Marja for the updates. After that, we’ll be finding out the new composition of the Board. All should be in place by early May.
The Great Plasma Update is almost there: it includes updates of the KF5, Plasma, KDE applications, LXQT and the underlying QT stacks. It’s currently waiting for the LXQT stack to be fixed. It’s a massive number of packages. We’re hoping it will be moved into updates within the week. Once that’s done, Mageia 6.1 will happen soon after.
Lots of update advisories came through in the last 2 weeks. If you’d like to check these between roundups, don’t forget you can go to Mageia Advisories. As usual, they have mostly been Mageia 6 security updates and only Mageia 6 bugfixes:
Security
- samba Mga5, 6
- libvncserver Mga5, 6
- php Mga5, 6
All the others are Mga6
- nx
- cfitsio
- nmap
- ntp
- aubio
- 389-ds-base
- acpica-tools
- puppet
- openssl
Bugfixes (Mga6 only):
- pngcheck
- cargo, rust
- openconnect, networkmanager-openconnect
- rpm
… and at least 866 package notifications came through the cauldron updates list in the last two weeks. Madb (Cauldron updates) has all this information between roundups.
Remember also the other resources: the Mageia AppDB, PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening.
Mageia Blog (English) : Weekly Roundup 2018 – Weeks 12 & 13
2 de Abril de 2018, 12:30 - sem comentários aindaApologies for the wait between roundups – life has a way of taking over, sometimes; anyway, here’s the latest.
Since the last Roundup there have been quite a few updates coming through. You’ll see there are still a few security updates still coming in for Mga5, and that some kernel and microcode updates have also come through for Mageia 6.
QA tests of the upgrade from KDE4 to Plasma are getting better and better, but there are still some bugs remaining. Martin’s qarepo package has been updated to v1.3 only a couple of days ago, making testers’ lives a little easier; hopefully this will help with huge meta-packages like Plasma. Once Plasma is sorted, and any fallout bugs are fixed, the path to both Mageia 5 to Mageia 6, and Mageia 6.1 will be a lot clearer.
Here’s the list of packages that had advisories over the past two weeks:
Security
- xerces-c – Mga5
- squirrelmail – Mga5, Mga6
- libvorbis – Mga5, Mga6
- shadow-utils – Mga5, Mga6
- SDL_image, mingw-SDL_image – Mga5, Mga6
- sqlite3 – Mga5, Mga6
- libtiff – Mga5, Mga6
- python-pycrypto – Mga5, Mga6
- flash-player-plugin – Mga6
- kernel, kernel-userspace-headers, kmod-vboxadditions, kmod-virtualbox, kmod-xtables-addons – Mga6
- libvirt – Mga6
- net-snmp – Mga6
- mailman – Mga6
- exempi – Mga6
- jupyter-notebook Mga6
- microcode Mga6
- leptonica, mingw Mga6
- sharutils Mga6
- bugzilla Mga6
- kernel, kernel-userspace-headers, kmod-vboxadditions, kmod-virtualbox, kmod-xtables-addons, wireguard-tools Mga6
Bugfixes – all Mga6
- glu
- lame
- numlock
- nvidia-current, ldetect-lst
- voxelands
- zbar
As always, you can check for yourself on Mageia Advisories, the Mageia AppDB, PkgSubmit to see the last 48 hours, and Bugzilla to see what’s currently happening. For Cauldron updates, the link is http://madb.mageia.org/rpm/list/listtype/updates/release/cauldron
– remember to click on the Applications drop-down to see all packages including libraries.
