[18785] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.20: update_ws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Feb 17 13:24:02 2001
Message-Id: <200102171823.NAA01210@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:47:50 EST."
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:23:58 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Thanks for reporting this. I knew updates broke SMP machines but I
was never quite clear on why.
The problem is that:
* rpmupdate is totally naive about SMP machines.
* Most SMP machines seem to have both an SMP and a UP kernel
(or rpmupdate wouldn't be updating the kernel and thus
wouldn't be doing any damage).
* When rpmupdate edits lilo.conf, it just does a substring
replace of the first part of the old kernel name with the
first part of the new kernel name. This replace matches the
SMP kernel name as well as the UP kernel name.
I'm not sure how I'll fix this yet (I can think of ways to at least
make it work a little better, but of course actually supporting SMP
machines would be better yet), but I'll think about it.
