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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: Add versioned require in rpm on rpm-helper</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] RFC: Add versioned require in rpm on rpm-helper">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
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<I>Mon Apr 16 11:20:29 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 16 April 2012 11:18, Thomas Backlund <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>> wrote:
>>>><i> As per an earlier mail on this list regarding apache during upgrade from
</I>>>>><i> mga1 to mga2, it seems that rpm-helper may not get installed earlier
</I>>>>><i> enough to do systemd transitions for services.
</I>>>>><i>
</I>>>>><i> Does anyone have any objection to adding a versioned require on
</I>>>>><i> rpm-helper in the rpm spec such that we know it'll be installed early
</I>>>>><i> when doing a distro upgrade? Any problems with this approach?
</I>>>><i>
</I>>>><i> So assuming no one has any objections to this, I'll add it to rpm today.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> That will work for urpmi that will upgrade rpm first before restarting
</I>>><i> but not for installer that doesn't need restarting itself (since we do
</I>>><i> not  use the system's urpmi).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> But AFAIK installer obeys rpm requires,
</I>
yes
><i> so when it installs rpm, it will put rpm-helper in same transaction, wont it ?
</I>
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
><i> and since rpm is a priority package, it will be done in the beginning, wont
</I>><i> it ?
</I>
NO.
>><i> A somewhat nicer fix would be to auto generate some
</I>>><i> 'needs-systemd-aware-rpm-helper'
</I>>><i> requires for packages providing systemd units, having rpm-helper
</I>>><i> fulfil this provides
</I>><i>
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</I>><i> Then we wouldn't need this.
</I>
Yes we do
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