Bug 122138
| Summary: | freshen of kernel silently removes kernel-smp | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dave Botsch <botsch> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-05-04 15:17:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Kernels should be installed with -i, not -F or -U.
The kernel-smp package carries a
Provides: kernel = V
with V == version that causes the kernel-smp package to be
erased when upgrading.
In this case, the freshen should either not be allowed to complete as it affects another package, or a warning should be generated. Other packages should not just be silently removed with no indication given to the user. If -F/-U should not be used for the kernel, then rpm should not allow this (and, in fact, after doing -i on test systems, kernels are usually pushed out to other systems using a -F). This new behavior is changed from Redhat 7.3, where a freshen of the kernel did not remove kernel-smp. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040428 Description of problem: This bug may also exist under ia32, but, I have not yet tested. When doing an rpm -Fvh kernel on a system that has both kernel and kernel-smp installed, the kernel rpm is upgraded as expected. However, if you then rpm -q kernel-smp, you'll note that you no longer have an smp kernel installed (and, such, cannot then rpm -Fvh kernel-smp). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2.1-0.30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install an old kernel, kernel-smp. Remove any newer kernels 2. rpm -Fvh kernel-newversion.rpm 3. rpm -q kernel-smp. Kernel-smp is no longer installed. Actual Results: kernel-smp is silently removed. Expected Results: kernel is upgraded, but kernel-smp is not touched. Additional info: If, instead, you first rpm -Fvh kernel-smp, kernel-smp is freshened, and kernel is not touched (it stays at the old version). You can then rpm -Fvh kernel. At the very least, a warning should be printed out that kernel-smp will be removed.