[3459] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: outstanding bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Apr 13 11:16:29 2001
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 2001 11:16:27 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:56:02 -0400"
Message-ID: <sjmr8ywkeyc.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
I'm worried about the case where packagelist says nothing, and
kernel-smp is installed. When rpmupdate runs, it should see
'kernel' in the new package-list, and notice that it isn't
in the installed package-list. So, wouldn't rpmupdate try
to install the "new" kernel package (even if it does nothing
with the kernel-smp package)?
-derek
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > But wouldn't we still need to add 'kernel' so that rpmupdate doesn't
> > try to add it?
>
> rpmupdate won't try to add an RPM which already exists. The only
> difference is that rpmupdate wouldn't downgrade the kernel if it
> wasn't in the old package list, but that doesn't seem like a case to
> worry about.
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