Mandriva DUDF Repository

Mandriva DUDF Repository

This section of Doc4 collects reports of the problems generated by faulty installations of software packages (RPMs). Problems during the installation of packages occur due to different reasons like missing package in the repository or broken dependencies. However, when a problem occur, the provider of the distribution is not automatically informed. To overcome this limitation, the Mancoosi European project defined a specific format for package installation problems report: the DUDF format - Distribution Upgrade Description Format.

How to contribute to the quality assurance of the upgrade process?

In your Mandriva 2010.0 distribution install the package "urpmi-dudf". Then all failed installations will be logged at /var/cache/urpmi/dudf/ directory. When an installation fails, urpmi will ask you if it can upload a DUDF error report to this server.

About the privacy policy

No personal information like name, hostname or email is stored or transfered in any part of the process. The problem report only contains the date/time when the problem occured, the list of packages installed, the active repositories and urpmi error message.

About the DUDF format

DUDF is a format used to submit a single problem of package installation from user machines to a problem database. The problem is encoded in XML accordingly to the specification described in the following reports: Mancoosi TR1 and Mancoosi TR2.

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About Mancoosi

The Mancoosi European project aims at developing tools for the system administrator. Two main avenues are pursued:

Develop mechanisms that provide for rollbacks of failed upgrade attempts, allowing the system administrator to revert the system to the state before the upgrade.

Develop better algorithms and tools to plan upgrade paths based on various information sources about software packages and on optimization criteria.

Mancoosi is a European research project in the Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. The project is situated in the FP7 theme Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). The project has started February 1st, 2008, and will have a duration of 3 years.