[5939] in testers
Re: advansys.o kernel module missing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jun 13 17:24:28 2004
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:24:24 -0400
Message-Id: <200406132124.i5DLOO1O003916@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <1086734924.1468.433.camel@egyptian-gods.mit.edu>
> (Late realization: since kernel-unsupported has no dependencies of
> note and pretty much just drops a bunch of files in
> /lib/modules/<kernelvers>, we could install it in a separate rpmlib
> transaction from the rest of the upgrade. Ugly, but no uglier than
> putting it first in the transaction set. I'll work on a patch to do
> that.)
I realized a problem with this approach: if the main transaction is
going to fail (for dependencies or conflicts or whatever), we don't
want the kernel-unsupported upgrade to succeed.
We could check the main transaction for problems before doing the
kernel-supported upgrade, but that would be slow and error-prone. We
could install the new version of kernel-unsupported and not delete the
old one until the main transaction, but that's getting awfully
complicated.
