[3460] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: outstanding bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 14 11:21:23 2001
Message-Id: <200104141521.LAA02753@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "13 Apr 2001 11:16:27 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:21:19 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 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)?
Ah. I have been advised in the past that most SMP machines have both
kernel and kernel-smp installed, and that this is not harmful
(although rpmupdate tends to break your lilo.conf when it upgrades the
kernel package--a known bug).
