[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release meta-task-2-21.mga2

Mon Jan 16 10:18:56 CET 2012

On 15 January 2012 22:49, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
+>> This is wrong, you're just introducing two different behaviors:
+>> - new installations will got drakcut&  systemd
+>> - updated ones will keep mkinitrd&  sysvinit
+>
+> How about enhancing urpmi to read prefer.vendor.list during distro
+> upgrade? That would solve this issue.
+> either by a specific --upgrade flag,
+> or automatically when mageia-release-common bumps version, would that
+> work ?
+
+This is already done. But prefer choice only apply to initial package
+installation.
+Once a package is installed, what matters are the package tags (provides,
+obsoletes, ...)
+
+> Or maybe we should add systemd and dracut as suggests to basesystem ?
+> (and not the hard requires on systemd...), that would pull them in.
+
+Hard requires are not an issue:
+- for systemd if systemd-sysvinit isn't hard required, which was
+already the case
+- for drakcut, as alternatives are used
+
+> If both dracut and mkinitrd provides mkinitrd, the prefer list must
+> contain the one we want by default, wich is what I did here.
+
+Yes but you also remove all of the obsolete/provides tag, which prevents drakcut
+to replace mkinitrd on upgrade.
+
+What needs to be carefully tested is to bump sysvinit/mkinitrd
+provides in systemd/drakcut
+and check upgrade.
+