[20266] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.0.24: update_ws
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon Apr 1 05:22:33 2002
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 05:22:32 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200204011022.FAA07849@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
CC: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[20262] in Athena Bugs"
>> I just ran "update_ws" as root to get updated to 9.0.26 from 9.0.24,
>> and guess what happened?
>>
>> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-31smp
>> label=linux
>> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.9-31.img
>> read-only
>> root=/dev/sda5
>>
>> There is an initrd-2.4.9-31smp.img installed, but nothing in lilo.conf
>> references it.
I took a look at this; the code for preserving kernel version
extensions (like .smp) for initrd files is in rpmupdate, and I verified
that it is on the 9.0 branch and that it works.
However, it looks like we never managed to put out a new rpmupdate
RPM with the code in it. The most recent version of the rpm in either
the dev or athena cells is athena-rpmupdate-9.0-15, which predates the
code being commited. The SRPM for athena-rpmupdate-9.0-15 contains
revision 1.8.2.1 of rpmupdate.c, and the most recent version on the 9.0
branch is 1.8.2.2.
I switched my SMP machine over to using an initrd and ext3 so we'll
notice things like this more quickly in the future.
Greg, I'm not sure how this happened, but it looks like if we just
build a new rpmupdate rpm from the 9.0 branch, it will DTRT. Of course,
it might not be worth it at this point, since I'm not sure there are
going to be any more kernel updated for 9.0.
Garry
