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

Mon Apr 16 11:50:29 CEST 2012

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:30, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
+> 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)
+
+rpm yes, rpm-helper I am not sure but wouldn't think so, rpm-helper is
+just a set of scripts and are run inside the chroot
+