[Mageia-dev] RFC: Add versioned require in rpm on rpm-helper

Mon Apr 16 11:18:19 CEST 2012

Thierry Vignaud skrev 16.4.2012 12:14:
+> On 16 April 2012 10:26, Colin Guthrie<mageia at colin.guthr.ie>  wrote:
+>>> As per an earlier mail on this list regarding apache during upgrade from
+>>> mga1 to mga2, it seems that rpm-helper may not get installed earlier
+>>> enough to do systemd transitions for services.
+>>>
+>>> Does anyone have any objection to adding a versioned require on
+>>> rpm-helper in the rpm spec such that we know it'll be installed early
+>>> when doing a distro upgrade? Any problems with this approach?
+>>
+>> So assuming no one has any objections to this, I'll add it to rpm today.
+>
+> That will work for urpmi that will upgrade rpm first before restarting
+> but not for installer that doesn't need restarting itself (since we do
+> not  use the system's urpmi).
+>
+
+But AFAIK installer obeys rpm requires, so when it installs rpm, it will 
+put rpm-helper in same transaction, wont it ?
+
+and since rpm is a priority package, it will be done in the beginning, 
+wont it ?
+
+
+> A somewhat nicer fix would be to auto generate some
+> 'needs-systemd-aware-rpm-helper'
+> requires for packages providing systemd units, having rpm-helper
+> fulfil this provides
+
+Then we wouldn't need this.
+
+
+--
+Thomas
+