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

Mon Apr 16 14:33:32 CEST 2012

Thierry Vignaud skrev 16.4.2012 15:04:
+> On 16 April 2012 13:15, Colin Guthrie<mageia at colin.guthr.ie>  wrote:
+>> <snip>
+>>
+>> So just to make sure I'm following this right:
+>>   1. Versioned require will fix urpmi-based upgrades.
+>>
+>>   2. Installer (fresh-install) will be fine because basesystem-minimal
+>> will pull in rpm which will pull in rpm-helper.  WE can be confident
+>> this will happen early.
+>
+> No you cannot on upgrade.
+> Package ordering will depends on versioned requires.
+>
+>>   3. Installer (upgrade) will still be broken as it does not treat the
+>> rpm package inside the chroot as any kind of priority update that is
+>> installed early in the upgrade process.
+>
+> installer upgrade will be OK if systemd unit packages require a recent
+> enough rpm-helper
+
+So, if I read this right, if we set versioned Requires(pre) rpm-helper 
+on systemd (or systemd-units) we will fix 2 and 3 too as anything 
+systemd related depends on theese packages ?
+
+But what will happend to initscript/sysvinit installs ?
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+