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Re: outstanding bugs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Apr 13 10:46:07 2001

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 10:46:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:34:31 -0400"
Message-ID: <sjmvgo8kgd3.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > So, how would this screw SMP machines?
> 
> rpmupdate would determine that kernel-smp used to be in the release
> list and is no longer, and therefore decide that Athena wants it
> deleted.

Ahh, perhaps we can just special-case this particular RPM?  Or more
likely, special-case the kernel stuff completely?  I would presume
that no matter what's installed we would want kernel-2.2.x... in the
package-list, regardless of whether we've got kernel or kernel-smp.
Would that help?

-derek

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