Bug 62216

Summary:	kernel-bigmem not selected for upgrade from 7.2's kernel-enterprise
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Stephen Tweedie <sct>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	skipjack-beta1	CC:	sct
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Stephen Tweedie 2002-03-28 15:01:02 UTC

Description of Problem:
On a large (8Gb) machine running 7.2 with kernel-enterprise and kernel-smp
kernels involved, a Skipjack upgrade selects only kernel-smp as the upgrade
kernel.  In fact, kernel-bigmem should be the kernel used for the upgrade, as
that supercedes the old kernel-enterprise package and is required for >4Gb
memory support.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Install media from skipjack public beta 1.

How Reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install 7.2 with kernel-enterprise on a large memory machine
2. upgrade to Skipjack

Actual Results:
kernel-smp is selected by the installer for the upgrade.

Expected Results:
kernel-bigmem should be selected by the installer for the upgrade.

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-03-28 19:46:01 UTC

That's because kernel-bigmem didn't obsolete/provide kernel-enterprise so there
was no way for anaconda to know the two were related.  Current CVS kernel has
kernel-bigmem obsoleting kernel-enterprise which will fix this.

Comment 2 Jay Turner 2002-04-02 19:03:17 UTC

Indeed, fix confirmed with 2.4.18-0.13.