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

Mon Apr 16 11:30:01 CEST 2012

Thierry Vignaud skrev 16.4.2012 12:20:
+> 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
+>
+
+Ah, you only mentioned system urpmi (not rpm) first time.
+
+but wont installer already use correct rpm/rpm-helper, since it's built 
+from current cauldron packages?
+(and can be rebuilt again after updated rpm-helper)
+
+>> and since rpm is a priority package, it will be done in the beginning, wont
+>> it ?
+>
+> NO.
+>
+
+but since it's already correct version in stage2, we should already be 
+ok, or... ?
+
+>>> 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
+
+So instead of fixing one package we will have to fix many packages :/
+
+--
+Thomas
+