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

Mon Apr 16 11:20:29 CEST 2012

On 16 April 2012 11:18, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> 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,
+
+yes
+
+> so when it installs rpm, it will put rpm-helper in same transaction, wont it ?
+
+NO.
+Read again what I wrote: installer doesn't do any priority upgrade since
+it doesn't need upgrading itself and doesn't use the installed system rpm/urpmi
+
+> and since rpm is a priority package, it will be done in the beginning, wont
+> it ?
+
+NO.
+
+>> 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.
+
+Yes we do
+